We've featured Shift Happens, a neat little "Did You Know" infographic video clip by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, before - here's an updated version: Did You Know 2.0. Very neat, highly recommended.
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College grads in 2006-
US: 1.3M
India: 3.1M
China: 3.3M
...without pointing out the fact that India has 4X the US population, and China, almost 5X. That makes the US ratio per person quite higher than the others.
Percent of grads in India that speak English... 100%. Well, duh. Welcome to one of the most widely spoken and the most important universal language. That's not the US's fault, that's just the way it is. They speak English, because they want to get the hell out of INDIA.
China, soon to be highest english speaking nation. Again, check the population numbers. If even 1/10 of the population speaks English (population 10 years from now) that'll be more than the US population in total.
It goes on and on.
It's easy to use relativism as an excuse, but anyone who has visited China can tell you that its people have something we don't: a sense of manifest destiny that their country will regain the top spot in the world again. This century will be a Chinese century.
Reading what the video tells you literally, it's not about the US being bad, it's about opening perspectives on education, global community, and technology in modern times. With that said, it doesn't really matter in this case what the per capita stats would tell you about the ratios of graduates to people; the relevant fact is that there are so many non-US college/university-educated people out in the world.
The same applies to China as the highest English-speaking nation. It doesn't matter what the percentage is (as the video doesn't presume to imply some sort of supremacy competition): the relevant facts are that China's population IS massive, and that its English-speaking population is rapidly growing.
Finally, I find BORT's comment on India to be arrogant, presumptuous, and incredibly ignorant. It seems you have missed the point entirely, and are in fact speaking out of blind, hearsay-based patriotism, rather than logic and rational thought.
And Yarn, your comment barely deserves addressing. What do you suppose the US would do to stem China's growth? War? Genocide?
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