ISSUE 28 （人们的福利比伟人取得的成就更能反映国家的伟大）~求PIAPIA~~

yzy0704

（想先发牢骚。。马上考了还5天，用 新 AW-倒计时 网站联系，掐时间最后2秒写完的，还不到450字。。桑心哇~~~）

What is the best indication of a nation's greatness? Some people hold the point that it is the achievements of its leaders, scientists, or artists that stand for a nation's greatest development. However, as far as I am concerned, it is the general welfare that actually stands for a nation's greatness.

Firstly, I agree that a country's leaders, scientists and artists have made great influence of the nation's greatness. A successful politics of a nation made by leaders may stand for a great political strength of a country, and success in art, math, physics, and so on, will be a symbol of greatness in these terms. If without these giants' efforts, a nation could never become powerful. So these people's achievements could stand for a nation's greatness.

However, the achievements of these great people are made for one purpose ultimately, and the purpose is to make the nation more powerful and people's lives better. So we could know that these achievements are not the greatest greatness of a nation, but it is the general welfare that actually stands for it. For example, scientists bring about latest machines and better technology to make people's lives more effective, artists draw pictures in order to be appraised by people in their leisure time, and leaders revise the laws in order to bring quality to people's daily lives. All of these show that any effort made by the country is to be used to improve people's living standard.

Why should we regard the welfare as a better indication of a nation's greatness? Just think back to the time when Adolf Hitler ruled German. In that time, the military, as well as the economy, politics were very powerful. However, no one could regard German in that time as a great nation in the world, because people living in German were faced with wars. Men were sent into the fields and women stayed at home anxiously, waiting their husbands to come back. Although the government was rich in that time, people's welfare was none. There is another simple example. There are some small countries in Europe, far smaller than America, Russia and China. But people in these countries are living in a happy life, because the general welfare standard is very high in these places. What's more, these countries are also regarded as best places for humans to live in. That's it.


So from all the reasons issued above, I surly agree with the point that achievements made by great giants could be regarded as indication of a nation’s greatness. But I think it is general welfare that stands for a country's greatness best.

普渡哥

你怎么来定义国家的伟大呢？

yzy0704

“However, as far as I am concerned, it is the general welfare that actually stands for a nation's greatness.”

介个~~