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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel the same way. When I was a kid, you sort of had one thing -- there were the smart girls, the sporty girls, the popular girls, the artsy girls, and very little overlap. I was one of the smart girls, and was confident that was enough to get me into a top college.  Now it seems like every teen girl I meet is beautiful, in all AP classes, plays multiple sports at a competitive level and is in a travel chorus or something on the side!  The other day my E.S. kid said something about going to my alma mater, and I was thinking internally "Good luck!  Better start mapping the genome now!"
Hopefully these all-star children will create a wonderfully strong economy that will save the Social Security system and support me in my old age.  
And the PP that said she doesn't think there's anything new about this -- are you thirty or forty?  If you're thirty, maybe nothing new, as you were part of the "baby boom boom" as it was called.  If you're 40, then I do think it's a different ballgame for teens now.[/quote]

Of course it's all new, people who pretend otherwise are just pretending. We are competing in every aspect of our lives globally. Here's a few example: 20 years ago the forbes global billionaires were mostly americans or western, and the they were Russians, and then the floodgates open with the internet age and cellular age and now you see many from Asia, Russia, Africa, Europe. US still have the most, but you see where I'm getting at. Knowledge is now lateral, with that, competition to climb above the rest and to set your self apart is insidious.
It is not just in business we are competing for viability globally, we do so evermore in sport too, basketball, baseball, tennis, and now there's a push to push american football in Europe too. Some people simply can't sweep the realities under the carpet and complain our jobs are going overseas. In a truly global market, EVERYTHING is competitive.

Basketball is now the biggest sport in China. Moreover, their economy has resulted in us paying more at the gas pump. OP, you're perceiving it right, but it is the information age that has made every aspect of our lives so competitive.[/quote]

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