Brazil’s self-sufficiency in the oil sector due to the success of the government-owned company, Petrobras, has attracted interest by global superpowers like the United States, which seeks to strengthen their energy alliance. Brazil’s strong growth and high interest rates has made Brazil an attractive destination for foreign investment, which helped contribute to Brazil’s expansive workforce of 103.6 million, the 6 th largest in the world. For example, Reliance Industries, which grossed $29 billion last year, ranks 126 th in the world in revenue according to the Forbes 2000 of 2010.īrazil, has also managed to become a global superpower because of its ability to establish an economy which outweighs all other South American nations. Moreover, India has various companies that list among the Forbes 2000, which are the highest-grossing companies in the world. Hence, India has an extensive global market share for exporting products made by their workforce. companies like IBM and Microsoft to move lots of their operations from the United States to India, where it’s cheaper to pay workers. India’s extensive workforce and the currency difference between the United States and India has made it cheaper for U.S. India has a very hefty workforce at 487.3 million, the second largest in the world. India is another global superpower by several accounts. Companies like Nissan, Toyota and Sony drive this economy which creates products the global market craves, supplemented with the man power of its workforce, 9 th largest in the world at 65 million. Japan has managed to sustain its role as a global superpower by being the second most technologically-advanced nation in the world. Despite great levels of poverty, China has emerged as an economic super power because it manufactures so many of the products consumed in other parts of the world, and especially the United States. As the planet’s most populated nation with the largest military and workforce, China is a clear global superpower.

Other existing or emerging global super powers include Japan, China, Russia, Brazil, Germany India and Singapore. More importantly, the United States’ ideals of ‘determining one’s own destiny’ has attracted generations of immigrants, thus creating a melting-pot of diverse ethnic traditions and great talent from around the world. has managed to use its superiorly equipped military to confront threats to people’s freedoms abroad. The United States attracts students from around the world with the best universities and top doctors and sick patients with advanced hospitals. These top-grossing nations are always the strongest economically, technologically, and educationally.Īlthough international competition for global dominance has been stiff, the United States has managed to maintain its role as a global superpower because we are the world’s most technologically-advanced country.

In addition, a global superpower is a nation that’s part of the world’s trillion-dollar club, an organization consisting of the world’s top grossing nations. The term global superpower, according to websites like the World Bank or IMF, are also financially stable enough to assist nations that need extensive humanitarian aid. Over the past 50 years, the United States, France, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, and Russia, have been recognized as global superpowers. United States can maintain its position as a global super power by confronting challenges in its education system to meet new needs in society, and to reemphasize innovation and the ideal of entrepreneurialism. However, I think this greatness is under the threat from nations like China, Japan and Singapore, whose economy, education systems and focus on innovation are quickly catching up or surpassing that of the United States.

The United States is a nation admired for the generations of opportunity it has provided. was an ideal environment to raise a child. Growing up, I learned that a global superpower was a nation with a strong education system, economy, technological advances, and military. My parents taught me to take advantage of the great wealth of in our new country. Later on as a student I learned about the global superpowers and was amazed when it was time to move to one – the United States of America.

At this early age I could not imagine what made other places so great. As a child I heard of the world’s superpowers and wondered what they must be like. My parents fled the war turmoil in Eritrea, to seek a better life for our family.

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