There are many. Do your homework instead of creating and rubber-stamping your own stereotype.

Christian culture had a tendency to advance the concepts to a new level. Rights that are a given across Christian historical western society are still largely repressed in other cultures. It is interesting that you talk about common elements of human morals across historical cultures. There is one other element those cultures possessed -- a belief in some form of god. I'm not sure I understand your reference to global warming. The biggest pushers to roll back the perceived threat are in Europe -- hardly eastern philosophy.

Reagan pointed people of many backgrounds. Appointed by Reagan does not equal same as Reagan. Much of Greenspan's reputation has been soured by his inability to warn of the impending housing crisis, the foundations of which were put in place under his oversight, or to have any type of plan of what to do during recessions that actually appeared to hasten their end. Another interesting fact is that the overall debt rose under Clinton. How is that possible while the deficit was going down? Bookkeeping. Social Security was running a surplus so the money was taken and used for other programs and IOUs put in its place. Want to guess what the books are showing for Social Security today?

Farm subsidies have been an American way of life across both political parties for quite a while. Whether you believe it is right or wrong, the rationale goes back to the importance of being able to feed your people -- no one wants to be caught having to count on outside conditions to make this a reality as it can have disasterous results -- just look at Germany in World War I.

Best wishes to you. While I would wish best wishes to everyone, some paths have better foundations than others.

1) The highest standard of living in the world is the United States. If you believe otherwise, I would imagine there is a good chance you could find your way to Scandinavia. 2) While European nations have higher levels of atheism than are found in America, it is nowhere near 80%. In fact in every nation, apart from those where religious belief leads to oppressive punishment, theism is in the majority.

That post remains me of the old George Burns joke. He was a smoker and he lived to a ripe old age, therefore statistics be d******, smoking is good for everybody! A sample size of 1 is considered invalid to determine any trend. Get to 30,000 and you see different results. Like it or not there are definitive results from cohabitation, and they are not favorable to life-long happiness.

Studies on cohabitation began in the 1970s and continued through the 2000s. The first, involving 30,000 people in Sweden, was designed to see how much living together before marriage had helped -- and instead found a 30% higher divorce rate. Others have been as high as 75%. Each study in its own decade produces similar resutls, the worst of which is that people who cohabitate more than once have the least chance of getting married and the highest rate of divorce -- far from being something that helps people in marrige, it produces the opposite of what is desired.