>>Military:
>>- by far the strongest and most effective military. It is said that no combination other other militaries can defeat.
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>Most effective, perhaps. But China is way ahead of us numerically. If they ever catch up to us in weapons quality, we may have a problem.

I think the numbers game for infantry ended the perhaps the 1960's. High altitude bombers, cruise missles, drones, air craft carriers are what tips the balance now. High tech really.

If we look at China's space program (a cover for ICBM program) they are the first to have done this with minimal R&D. They bought a bunch of Soyeuz technolgoy from the Russians and the rest probably came via esponiage from the US space program. They simply didn't have the talent to do this themselves.

>>Arts:
>>- music - they invented every new music form in the 20th century (Jazz, Blues, Rock, Rap, Hip-hop, Punk, Grunge)
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>Punk was an English development, I remember when it first hit the 'States. We had a couple good punk/new wave clubs here, some really great ones in Austin.

This is debateable, but let's say for arguments sake that they co-invented with the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock