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RE: A Modest Proposal
Confusion can happen, especially with profiles that haven't added an avatar yet, so that's more than understandable.
I don't live in Honduras, but I hope we'll not start a guessing game as I currently prefer to keep my location private.
up to you..I don't care where you live as long as you don't start a pissing contest about Texas or The US of A....if you do then it's 'put up or shut up'...you have to tell me how YOUR country is doing better.
note...if texas was a country...it'd be the 12th largest GNP in the world.
you also might consider this.
and..this
so...if you want to criticize...(your right)...show how you can do better...
note: Texas has a larger GNP than Russia.
As I mentioned before, I don't think I have to live in any kind of a country to point something out, be it about the US, Texas, Honduras or Russia. Where I'm from, where I live now or where I have lived before is absolutely besides the point and I surely don't want any part in any my-country-vs-your-country type of discussions and pointless pissing contests.
When I criticize a state and their educational policies, this has little or nothing to do with the state's GDP or the people in it personally, so I see the data you've mentioned above as irrelevant to this specific discussion. Isn't talking about my country a type of an ad hominem here anyway?
Pointing out a better option when criticizing something is a good policy though and it's fair that you would expect something like that. In the case of our discussion tough, I think I actually did that exactly in the exact same comment I mentioned Texas in. I might have not used the most respectful wording hence my apologies, but I did point out a number of countries that are doing a better job with education than both Texas and the US. Does it really matter if I live in one or not? Logic dictates that it doesn't, the rest is emotion and should be recognized as such.
I will try to be more mindful of people's patriotic feelings, but I can't recognize them as logical in this type of context. For instance, you personally seem to be very unhappy with government in general, but got annoyed when I criticized "your" government while being an "outsider".
Still, I realize that I might have misread an important nuance in your stance here and I'd like to check if that is the case. You might be drawing a big distinction between the federal government and the state government in the state of Texas and have very different attitudes towards. Is that the case?
Also, please don't think that the fact that I'm criticizing something about the US stops me from recognizing other things that make it great. For instance, I believe the US is one of the greatest countries to live in for many people and the constant immigration interest from all over the world is strong evidence for that. I personally put even more value on this metric (even if it's more difficult to measure) than GDP.