The most important question in the next six weeks, should the Democratic Party candidate Barack Hussein Obama Junior win the United States presidential election of November 4, is how the world will start viewing America.
In an April 2, 1990 Newsweek with the cover story, “What Japan thinks of America: a nation of crybabies?” a Newsweek/Gallup poll of what Japanese thought were America’s most serious problems, 93 per cent thought it was America’s drug and alcohol addiction; 66 per cent thought it was lazy workers; 57 per cent thought America’s problem was too many racial and ethnic groups; 55 per cent thought it was not enough long-term investment; and 53 per cent though workers and bosses were too greedy.
In an interview in that same Newsweek edition, the then chairman of the United States car maker Chrysler Corporation, Lee Iacocca, noted that, “If you read any history of Japan, their idea of competition is always highly adversarial, and its objective is…to destroy the competition- not to compete, but to wipe it out.”
During the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games in August, the Japanese Olympic team carried both their national flag as well as that of China in a gesture of the reconciliation of these once bitter enemies and their working to create a new century, the 21st century as the Asian century.
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