Соглашусь с зероколом. Когда религиозные э... чудаки сгоняют девушку в военной форме с занятого ей места в автобусе- это не совсем традиции. Когда люди закидывают камнями машину- это просто показатель средневековия и нетерпимости в голове.
И последнее. Маленький подарок всем нелюбителям США. Вполне разумная книга
"That Used to Be Us"
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/books ... fA84sghjkAоткуда при желании можно высосать множество совсем депрессивных фактов про жизнь в США (рецензия на книгу дана в ссылке на Нью Йорк Таймс выше):
And so is this point from Arne Duncan, the secretary of education: “Currently about one-fourth of ninth graders fail to graduate high school within four years. Among the O.E.C.D. countries, only Mexico, Spain, Turkey and New Zealand have higher dropout rates than the United States.”
How about this statistic from Friedman and Mandelbaum: “Thirty years ago, 10 percent of California’s general revenue fund went to higher education and 3 percent to prisons. Today nearly 11 percent goes to prisons and 8 percent to higher education.”
Or this, which comes from the Nobelist Joseph Stiglitz: “The top 1 percent of Americans now take in roughly one-fourth of America’s total income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, . . . the top 1 percent now controls 40 percent of the total. This is new. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent.”
Or this, from the Pentagon via Arne Duncan: “Seventy-five percent of young Americans, between the ages of 17 to 24, are unable to enlist in the military today because they have failed to graduate from high school, have a criminal record or are physically unfit.” :
When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said: "At least the handle is one of us"
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