blog #37

Blog 37

This blog is supposed to be a personal anecdote or a hypothetical situation that can relate to my commonplace paper.  My commonplace paper is about the changing society that places more stress on teenagers and college students in order to be more competitive.  I missed yesterday’s blog and today I’d prefer to write a hypothetical situation because I’d like to think that there is an end to the stress that college students are placed on, I’m somewhat hopeful that my own children won’t have to deal with the stress that I’ve had placed on me.  Although, I personally don’t see any end to the raising standards only because Americans are obsessed with competition and becoming better at everything they do.  And Americans were once the leader of our world in everything: technology, education, and in jobs.  Now however, other countries like Japan and China are becoming super powers too and are finally catching up to us when it comes to technology and possibly jobs, other countries (Japan and China included) are also catching up to America when it comes to education.   Most other countries don’t focus on educating everyone, but only educating those who seem to have high potential.  Therefore, they have a more balanced population and the competition isn’t too high.  But in America, everyone is expected to get higher education, which creates really high competition within our country, not to mention the competition between countries.  I don’t really see any hypothetical situation where America doesn’t have higher standards and yet doesn’t become dumber in the process.