Did You Know? is a really interesting video that concerns the constantly evolving technological world we live in as well as America's slowly eroding place in the global market. It makes several surprising points, but two of the most shocking are that China will soon be the number one English speaking country in the world, and that the top twenty-five percent of India's population with the highest IQ is greater than the population of the United States. It also describes the recent boom in websites such as Google and the social networking sites, but unfortunately it includes Myspace, which ironically dates a video thats chief concern is showing how rapidly the world is changing. In a way that proves the point the video tries to make.
One of the things I believe a video like this could do, when watched in the context of being a future educator, is to show just how daunting a task it is to even attempt to maintain a culture that is intellectually on par with the rapidly growing countries of Asia. The numbers are definitely stacked against us, but I guess determination and sheer will has kept America in the forefront of the technological world for enough years that hopefully those same characteristics will help us remain there for generations to come.
Maybe our time has come and gone like Greece, Rome, Spain, France, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom and now America.
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