The search paid off!!

I wanted to write something meaningful today. After discarding some initial vague thoughts, I decided to read the news for today and see if I can come up with something from that. Very soon I started reading the interesting business headline of today, which I did hear over radio during the day - Indra Nooyi is named the next CEO of PepsiCo. Soon I started reading more about her background and found out that she has actually completed most part of her education in India. I might be wrong here, but I can safely claim that she must be the first woman executive born, raised and educated in India, who has reached the pinnacle of a major international corporation. Truely a commendable feat. But what interested me more in her is a particular remark of her - In May 2005 Nooyi started a controversy when she spoke to graduates of the NY Columbia Business School describing the USA as "the long middle finger" adding the US "must be careful that when we extend our arm in either a business or political sense, we take pains to assure we are giving a hand . . . not the finger." She certainly shares a very popular opinion that most people who have migrated to the US from a third world country have. If anybody asks me about the single most negative trait of this country, I cannot put it in better words than how Ms. Nooyi said in that statement. For a majority of Americans, the world begins and ends in between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans...with the southern part just being a vestigial appendix. I still can't understand how the winner of the "National" Football League is call a "World" Champion! It still amuses me as to how can anything that is the best in America be so easily and commonly termed as best in the world! How can the most open minded and rich and technologically advanced country be so short sighted towards anybody and everybody! As they say, nobody is perfect. I guess this is the one big flaw in the otherwise close to perfect red, white and blue fabric of this nation.