QUOTE(SoonToBeDaddy @ May 5 2009, 06:33 AM) [snapback]4220371[/snapback]
Mongolia is a country surrounded by two economic powers, and outnumbered over 1000 to 1. It is landlocked, but with rich resources that foreign companies are hoping to attain. Mongol culture gives our people much to fight for, but our situation gives us too little power to fight with. Money is power, there are Mongolians who are refraining from an easy-going lifestyle and focusing on their studies in the business world. I would call these people - the true patriots.
Yes, and some of these are my Mongolian friends going into business. I hope your country will be able to sell the uranium and make your own reactors for electricity. I hope you can avoid being exploited by other countries. I've seen America do this to the Native american lands where they took and gave not back and I've seen America do this with other countries. So may you sell your resouces to us yankies and keep your own autonomy, culture, language, etc. Like I've said before. I just want to see Mongolia controlling Mongolia's destiny. I don't want to see Mongolia being a puppet state to any other country.
Yes, money is necessary but sometimes money is corrupting too. And sometimes people lose all since of self in the pursuit of money. I think it needs to strike a ballance. May Mongolia strike a perfect balance and prosper in every way. You are new to this particular chat i think. I've been telling Mongolians here for months how I was waiting for Made In Mongolia products. How I wanted to see them take some of China's trade away and get it from America. China has enough trade it is okay for them to share some.
I understand the uneasiness of being between two massive super powers and land locked. But us having the mighty seas between us didn't stop 9/11 from happening and the two mighty seas didn't stop us from going into a depression. And even though Mongolia is land locked between two massive giants you still have held your own. Purhaps looking at the circumstances between my country and yours, purhaps you are the stronger for you have had less with more stress and survived. We have more than the rest of the world and still we faulter. And even though we have all this power, money, etc. we still have unrest and an inability to get things the way we want in the world. Oh, just look at Afganistan and Iraq not to mention we are still in other countries not mentioned these days on the news and we haven't been able to make them do what we want.
You can not understand where I come from because you do not understand how the Udha works in me.
I wish nothing but the best for Mongolia and Mongolia's people. I truely believe like my teacher Sarangerel Odigon had said that Mongolia will rise up a power again uniting the world.