【10G10Hawk】小组8月12日任务——Issue170

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TOPIC: ISSUE170 - "The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people."
WORDS: 650          TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 2010/8/12 23:43:23

Abedi Pele, one of the greatest football stars in 20th century born in Ghana, has earned millions and millions in his time. As a civilian in Ghana, we can say that he was a rich man who represented the Ghana. However, we also know that the Republic of Ghana is actually in poverty in which the citizens' incomes are in a low level. Thus in this case, we can never define a nation's greatness in terms of her achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but through the general welfare of all its people.

At the outset, some people think that the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists of one country indicate the power-class in itself. However, there are some points they have missed.

First of all, people notice those famous ones according to TV programs, newspapers and internet and the like, but they don't realize that the numbers of stars can be put on news is very small in effect. When comparing with the majority, those politicians and so on in reports are just a tiny part of a whole society. It is the regular appearances in the public that make we normal persons think we have a large numbers of great people which in reality we have a few. Thus as we all know that a few isn't equal to the whole the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists but not the general welfare of all its people couldn't indicate a nation is great or not. Secondly, those celebrities, no matter artists, politicians or scientists, with general talents have been succeeded in the light of their own hard-working in a great extent. Thus we can't ignore a possibility that it doesn't matter which country do they come from by occasion of their own talents which may lead to their success in any country. As Edison once said, genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, which informed us that a nation's resource may just do a little help in one's achievements. Therefore, it is hasty to say that the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists indicate a nation's greatness.

To run this assertion in depth, it often takes place that the achievements of those celebrities do not benefit for the citizens. A country may have a wise leader, but if he or she doesn't make contribution to his or her people, the fortune is just belong to the certain one's but not belong to the whole society. And as to those scientists, they definitely own a high IQ. But it would also be useless if they use their intelligence to explore what they interested in but not to improve the normal persons' level of lives. For instance, when scientist first succeeded in the cloning technology, we all be amazing about the technology and be proud of those scientists' wonderful jobs. But as we all know that this kind of technology was finally shot down by the governments for their not caring about the ordinary people's lives. So achievements made by those outstanding people are not so sure to contribute to the citizens' even to the whole society, it doesn't ensure the welfare of all its people. And the majority of one country is the normal people but not the few outstanding people, so the surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people.

Indeed, it would be unfair to ignore the achievements made by those artists, scientists and so on. After all, these achievements represent the highest development of one nation. It is a vital part of evaluating a whole level of one nation. However, we should also be careful not to hastily assume that a nation is necessarily great merely by virtue of the achievements of individual citizens. It is those ordinaries that push our society forwards.