Gad Saad

I think America does pretty well, no?

Am I too rosy about my views of America?

So I'm going to use here some Arabic words, which I'll try to explain in English.

But maybe to your Arabic listeners, they'll appreciate it.

The Chinese have greater and .

they are duplicitous in the way they do that stuff, right?

They caress you this way while they take, right?

So yes, they are using a different modality to wield their power compared to the brash rah-rah-rah Americans, but let's not sort of romanticize what the Chinese could do, right?

change the name of it and take over all the IP and you're gone bye bye and there's not a fucking thing you can do about it because they don't have an open society like we do well and think about I mean if we're doing the ledger of sort of cruelty and evil we could talk about how the US versus China wields power around the world but how about internally domestically we had a guy called Mao Zedong that

was kind of pretty brutal, that if we do the history of China in terms of how many millions of people were killed by that regime versus anything that's happened in the U.S., has the U.S.

been perfect in the past 250 years?

Absolutely not.

So to me, once I, and maybe that's why University of Mississippi was keen on having me come, I look at the United States as someone who, thank you for your earlier question about sort of where do you come from, tell us your story.

Some of the biggest defenders of the United States are typically, it might sound paradoxical, but if you think about it, it's not, are usually immigrants who have sampled from the wide variety of buffets of societies out there.

Therefore, we know that the anomaly called the United States is truly an anomaly.

Whereas the American wakes up in his life and he thinks that the liberties and freedoms that you have in the United States are just the default value.

That's just the way it is.

It isn't.

That's what makes the United States great.

So for me...