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I prefer to brag about the ethnic diversity, myself. Our education isn't as bad as some people make it out to be, in my experience, at least it isn't something the federal government can address that much. The only thing the federal level government can do is institute a health care program and paid vacation laws like those in Europe to make it easier to take part in a child's education. The first few years of my schooling (until 6th grade or so) my parents were still in college so I had quite a bit of interest in my schooling from my parents. On this issue, in alot of ways the Democratic mindset is a problem as much as the Republican one. I think the Democrats keep trying to address the symptoms and the Republicans, while they do try to address the source, can't (due to their own philosophy) address the real issue- people just can't afford to pay much attention to how there kid is being schooled unless you have the right job or are superhuman. I'd like to nationalize the school systems and grant community control over most aspects of it, though certain quality requirements would have to be in place.

On the Europe part, you'd be very surprised the differences as well as the similarities, I think. America has alot of aspects I solidly prefer to Europe, even though I'm rather far left in my own ideology. I prefer to take the best of each and throw them together.

Americans are very lazy when it comes to mass transit, not because we love cars so much (we do, though, its part of the culture in a way that its not in Europe) but because our government is lazy. Americans are among the hardest working people in the world and I've always thought that was a good thing. Also, government is really afraid to build any kind of government run thing. Its part of the Calvinistic philosophy that a large part of the country was founded on, I suppose.

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