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<p>"You're being ridiculous. The U.S. won some wars during the part few hundred years. How does that prove it is the best country now? Why not Denmark, or Japan?"</p>

<p>Japan? You mean the country that murdered 3000 American sailors at Pearl Harbor and tried to take over the world with Germany?
Denmark? What country freed Denmark?
I'm sorry if you don't think history is relevant.</p>

<p>You wanna talk about now? What country has saved the lives of millions of Africans from AIDS? What country gives more in relief aid than the rest of the world combined? When freedom is threatened, what country shows up to defend it, and asks nothing in return?</p>

<p>Hubris? No, I just have an appreciation for the freedom that I've been given by Americans who have come before me. I appreciate that I am fortunate enough to call myself an American.</p>

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<p>"Why does Sweden exist today? Oh yeah, the United States of America."</p>

<p>Well, not just USA, but working with other countries such as the UK, Russia, and other Allied Powers helped end WWII.</p>

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Hubris? No, I just have an appreciation for the freedom that I've been given by Americans who have come before me. I appreciate that I am fortunate enough to call myself an American.

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Sure, the U.S. is pretty nice. Members of the military deserve a lot of respect. I'd certainly rather live in America than Haiti. But how can you be so sure that this country is the best? How many countries have you even been to? </p>

<p>I'd be ecstatic to go to MIT, but I won't claim that it is unambiguously the best college in the world (though it is the best college for me) and CERTAINLY not say that I am amazed to find that somebody else likes another college more. This is what your are doing and it's completely irrational.</p>

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What country gives more in relief aid than the rest of the world combined?

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The US is actually pretty terrible in charity:GDP, bottom half of all countries IIRC.</p>

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When freedom is threatened, what country shows up to defend it, and asks nothing in return?

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This just shows willful ignorance.</p>

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<p>"This just shows willful ignorance."</p>

<p>What have we asked from Afghanistan and Iraq? Freedom and Democracy? We never take any land or seize power from the countries we liberate. </p>

<p>"The US is actually pretty terrible in charity:GDP, bottom half of all countries IIRC."</p>

<p>Twist the numbers anyway you want. What would happen if the US stopped giving aid?</p>

<p>"Sure, the U.S. is pretty nice. Members of the military deserve a lot of respect. I'd certainly rather live in America than Haiti. But how can you be so sure that this country is the best? How many countries have you even been to?'</p>

<p>Because we aren't a bunch of socialist pussies who let someone do our dirty work for us. Freedom would not exist if it weren't for us.</p>

<p>I'm done with this. If you think another country is better go live there. God Bless America.</p>

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Freedom would not exist if it weren't for us.

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Wow. This is the best one yet. And since when do YOU have anything to do with that?</p>

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You obviously are an elitist who needs to talk his country down in order to make yourself feel intellectually superior to the rest of us bitter Americans.

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This just shows how ridiculous you are. I'm an elitist because I'm saying my own country is NOT the best? And how is saying my country is one of the top ten out of two hundred "talking it down"? That just shows insanely unrealistic expectations.</p>

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<p>@AnnaSmith</p>

<p>you are perfectly right.US is no.1 when it comes to academics.no1 can deny this.but i dont want to come there because i dont want to be PROFILED/HARRASSED or worse sent to gitmo (they give you a visa and then arrest you at the airport, nice!)</p>

<p>@steevee</p>

<p>my main interest is in wind turbines.although i have noticed colleges having an energy department i have so far never come across a department in any college that addresses wind power alone.have you??? if yes kindly enlighten us where. :)</p>

<p>ImaHero >> "Thanks pal, but we don't really feel "hopeless" or "ashamed" about living in the greatest country in the world, the beacon of hope and freedom to everyone else in the world. </p>

<p>ridiculous.obviously some people here dont know their own history (or current affairs).</p>

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<p>My advice would be to look to industry to direct you. Contact people who are leaders in the field in the industry you want to target and ask them where you should study. I am in the biofuel industry and I am learning from people who have been in this field for 30+ years and they have ties with professors at universities who specialize in specific areas of the technology. I would say that, at least for biofuels, the technology isn't in one place per se, but is spread out since it is a aggregate of many disciplines. </p>

<p>Southern Illinois University is big on feedstock studies and houses the National Corn to Ethanol Research Center.</p>

<p>Profs who used to teach at UC Davis and University of Saskatchewan were big into distillation.</p>

<p>University of Florida has good enzyme discovery expertise.</p>

<p>Etc.</p>

<p>I know this doesn't answer your question, but those in the photoelectric business would know where the research is strongest and the specific education is the best.</p>

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<p>Thank you Japher.it is good advice.</p>

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<p>wow you guys are a bunch of a-holes. </p>

<p>Haroon good job acting like this site is useless when its obviously focused on US university. And if ur gonna make ur crappy "vande mataram" argument then ****. i am Indian, living in America, and even i wouldn't even make such a bull argument.</p>

<p>And poster who is being a typical a-hole American please stop... ur embarrassing the rest of us. Yea America is a great country and i'm extremely proud of that fact but putting down other nations and acting like we have never done anything wrong or w.e the f--- u think ur proving just makes everyone think America is made of a bunch of a-holes. Also do you know that the extreme national pride, to the point where you hate other nations, like apparently you do, is also known as fascism - yea really look it up, don't call people crazy socialist when you cant take the other side of the spectrum </p>

<p>haroon no you don't get sent to gitmo cause you got to the airport, i travel all the time. seriously ur all bunch of a-holes and I'm embarrassed for you.... i cant believe i just registered in order to yell at a bunch of a-holes</p>

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<p>I'm seriously stunned by this appalling display of over=agressive nationalism. I do not believe that the right and duty to uphold the honour of your own country includes the degradation of others. I pray that none of us create/change images of some country on the basis of the contents of this thread. And before anything else I'd request subsequent posters to follow standard public forum ettiquetes! 'ur' and 'no1' are accebtable on a private chat with your childhood buddy, but this is a 'forum' and you'll have people from round the world including serious 'students' coming over. People who may or may not have english as their first language and might not have been exposed to internet acronyms either. Our only purpose in a public forum is not brute dominance of our ideas, but an amiable exchange and development of fruitful discussions. And no matter how frustrated we may be, our anger doesn't license us to use profanity such as 'a-hole' etc. By trying to rank your country higher and dominate over others by use of brute force in speech you can only expect yo make a fool out of yourself and your country. Therefore, as stated earlier, I'd strongly suggest that readers do not form any opinions about a country on the basis of this thread.
Coming back to the topic, for those who mentioned nuclear energy as non-renewable, I'd like to add that though this is true in the context of fission technologies, fusion can be considered 'renewable'. You can find the best universities for nuclear engineering here- Search</a> - Engineering - Best Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report</p>

<p>As per those in India, at undergrad level, there isn't much to offer. I'd be better off doing a major in physics from Indian Institute of Science Pune/Mohali/Kolkata. At postgrad level though, there are more options in Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research etc...</p>

<p>But bottomline- Though India's great for majors in many fields. especially the IITs and NIITs, you'd be much better off looking at a good US University if you are into hardcore researching in specialized fields.
At least thats what my plan is :D</p>

<p>Please state any flaws in it if you can...
Edit: To avoid any doubts, I am an Indian(and a proud one :)) 11th grade student. So please suggest accordingly.
Thank you!</p>

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<p>You guys haven't even scratched the surface... </p>

<p>...How can you possibly say that Japan murdered 3,000 Americans? I'm sorry but nationalism aside, that was the smartest move a country has ever made. Think about it... Even thought the US wasn't officialy in the war yet, they were supplying the allies with guns, ammunition, everything. And the US a few months prior had a draft. The Japanease knew that within a three months, the US would have ultimately gone into the war against them. So why not attack the Pacific islands and eliminate most of the Navy for the US, preventing the US from entering the war? Hmmmmmm.... Why was the entire US Navy fleet in the Pacific islands anyway, sounds like they were up to something...</p>

<p>...And how can you call the Japanease murderers??? We are the biggest mass murderers the world has ever seen; we make Germany and the Holocaust situation look like nothing. While the Japanease attacked Pearl Harbor and the other islands, killing SOLDIERS WHO WOULD BE ON JAPANEASE SOIL IN AROUND THREE MONTHS IF NOTHING WAS DONE ANYWAY. "Now why would Japan want we ignorant Americans on their soil, raping their children and wives, like our soldiers have done in every war." LOL, we are getting somewhere...</p>

<p>...now on the murder subject... Let me give you a situation that describes mass murder. NOW excluding the napalm attacks, which burned about every citizen of Tokyo into a crisp, we were in this little other situaion. Besides giving these two nukes cute little names, such as Little Boy and Fat Man or whatever, with all the other goodie, racist writings on the side, we decided to nuke Heroshima. After we destroyed millions of countless lives, WHEN THE WAR WAS WON LONG AGO, we decided we could do better by nuking Nagasaki, and maybe it would make a louder BOOM BOOM and be more satisfying. Hey, maybe the screams of terror weren't loud enough... Maybe all the countless lives that weren't already <strong><em>ed up, needed to be *</em></strong>ed up some more! If you were alive; YOU WERE EITHER MUTUALLY DEFORMED OR WERE DYING A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH OF RADIATION POSIONING! There were seriously many people who had 8 legs, half of their face attactched normally and the other half attatched to their back, and other serious messed up ***. NOW REMEMBER, "THESE WEREN'T 3,000 SOLDIERS WHO WERE GOING TO KILL YOU, EVENTUALLY; THESE WERE MILLIONS OF "INNOCENT" PEOPLE!</p>

<p>...Consider what I have said, and remember...</p>

<p>...I'm not some bitter international student, I am a white guy, who was born and has lived his entire life in the States. My step dad was a, now retired, F/A 14 then F/A 18 pilot for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NAVY! You know, the ones who were attacked in the mid twentieth century. NOW THAT IS WHAT YOU CALL "AN UNBIASED OPINION!"</p>

<p>Now I do agree, "this is the greatest nation anyone has ever stolen!" Point is, we have some of the dirtiest, if not the dirtiest hands in the history of any country. We are at our prominent, well now declining status, of the lone super power because of the crooked **** we pulled in the past.</p>

<p>I rest my case...</p>

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<p>Now whoever this Indian guy is on here, talking <strong><em>, the only thing we know about India is what we saw from the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' last week, saw yeah we know nothing about your culture... And from that film, we inferred that India is *</em></strong>. It was amazing how ***ed up your society was in that movie, being all mean to that kid who lost his girlfriend and giving him wrong answers on the millionaire. How screwed up, lol.</p>

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<p>Dropping the bombs on Japan saved possibly a million more lives. The U.S. dropped the second bomb to prove we had more than one. The atomic bombs ended WW2. Period. Then, after the war, we helped rebuild Japan. They learned their lesson as a nation.</p>

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<p>@Houston- If anything, I suggested people stop talking **** in the first place. And framing opinions about a country just on the basis of 1 movie? Does it get any more dumb? A movie is created with a special objective in mind. Its not like every movie is bound to bring forward all sides of the story. I can, with imense conviction, assert that India's moral standards are faaaar beyond those of America and most other countries. Obviously, in a billion plus population, you are bound to have your share of bad guys. But if we did the same with Americans, basing opinions out of some crap Hollywood movie.....well
If you do not fully understand another country's culture and values, you're better off exploring a bit deeper than ranting on a public forum about how !@#$ed up that country is.
As per the wars, no war is essentially good. Period. There WILL always be atrocities on both sides, there WILL always be people with different perspectives who are just holding a piece out of the larger picture. Common logic might place one side a lil higer than the other, nevertheless barring a few rare exceptions, I do not believe there have been too many wars with one clear 'good' and one clear 'bad' side. Especially in modern times, the perception of what is just and what is not and more importantly what is 'good' and what is 'bad'(Note the difference between the two) has changed dramatically. So we cannot ppossibly succeed in imposing our own ideals and honour on someone else with a different perspective. At the very least, we can try to interact a little more calmy with people from round the world and develop a global perspective, i.e. piece together the larger picture and see what we can learn from it. Instead of saying that country is so @#!$ed up and so will that guy be, and he's from a great country....</p>

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We never take any land or seize power from the countries we liberate.

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<p>Instead, the US just won't liberate those countries that we seize land and power from! Case in point - taking half of all of Mexico after the Mexican-American War. Or toppling the monarchy as a precursor to the annexation of Hawaii, an act which the US had been found to be complicit even as far back as 1893 by the Blount Report that was commissioned by the Grover Cleveland Administration. Certainly none of the Hawaiian people had a vote in the matter. And then of course were the numerous times that the US abrogated treaties with and crushed the myriad Native American tribes in order to take their lands. </p>

<p>The US in recent history has also removed several democratically elected leaders, replacing them with right-wing dictatorships. Witness Operation PBSuccess, Operation Ajax, Operation Brother Sam, the Congo Crisis of 1960, and 1980 Turkish military coup d'etat.</p>

<p>Don't get me wrong. I love this country. I believe that, whatever its faults, the US has almost certainly behaved more honorably than its adversaries, such as the Soviet Union (granted, that's a low bar). </p>

<p>But at the same time, we have to be honest. The US has not always stood for liberation and freedom, and has not always refrained from seizing land or power.</p>

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<p>I agree with Sakky for the most part, but sense some hate on my boy, George W....</p>

<p>Aside from that, I must say Ilm pretty bitter towards the fact that my hopeful country 'America' hasn't fully uprised yet, if you know what I mean.</p>

<p>Country: America
Divisions: United States of America and the 'United Provinces of America.'</p>

<p>But of course this wouldn't entirely work without the effort or force of effort of Canada. I hope they would comply. They could have the very very northern territories of Canada and have permission to invade Greenland.</p>

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