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Nationality, Ethnicity, and History

 I was thinking about how the rest of he world is more culturally advanced than the U.S. because they have been around longer and the people within those geographic locations have been smelted together even as the governments rose or fell It has only been a little over 200 years since America was colonized. Other parts of the world there has been war, trade, and cultural advancement towards a common goal as one people. Before the U.S was colonized only native Americans lived there. (and the nationality label "Native American" which I do not see as a fitting name because it is not specific enough, but maybe that is the point it does not need to be.)      But when you are talking about America you could be saying north america south america or central america. The term "America" is a very broad term. Ideally I would think you would be able to call "Native Americans" by their tribe names but there are very few organized trib...

Science, or something like that

     Today I while lying in bed I thought of a conversation that I would have in my science class that would never happen. At first I believe I thought about how I define armaments as anything to keep you from getting killed by the opposing force. Then I thought what if my science teacher asked what if the opposing force is an unstoppable force, to which I responded what if my armaments are unmovable. Then I said that the reality of our force and object would be impossible due to the 2nd law of thermodynamics which roughly states that  any machine needs a source of heat (power) to continue to run. In the case of his unstoppable force it would need an infinite source of energy which at this point in time is impossible, and as would my unstoppable armaments because they would have a force (maybe not an unstoppable one) acting against it and it would lead to it's inevitable demise as nothing lasts forever. Then we started conversi...