culture

I had dinner at The Cheesecake Factory with a Chinese friend from Toronto. I asked him about his thoughts and feelings regarding his upbringing in communism and his experiences now living in the west. He said he really liked the US. He thinks we have three points of excellence:

1. creativity - this was mostly related to technology. We are lacking in the arts (we discussed fashion in specific) but this is improving
2. care for the future (particularly future generations)
3. faith

I probed the faith point a little and in the end he agreed that it could be possible that our faith could also be the drive behind our creativity and care for the future. We then agreed that the US is on a path to lose that strength of faith as we pursue the European ideal.

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