Favorite Imported Items

[Raa]

Methinks you two should start acting mature, like me. Or I'll have to disconnect your interwebz... You don't want that, do you? 

[Eurac]

Hmmm! How about we dont like such as, Nuclear Waste, Prisoners, Pollution, War, Religion, Narcotics........
The list goes on.

[Mathy Stockington]

I really can't tell if you're trying to be sarcastic or patronising.

To be honest with you Parallo I do truly think you are very intelligent and I mean it. There is no sarcasm here at all. Your responses are always worthwhile reading.

[Parallo]

Wow. Um, thanks, I guess. 

[hitancrias]

I live in the Netherlands. Most things sold in the shops here are imported but it's often not so easy to tell where they are from.
For example, the laptop I now use to type this post  is a NEC (Versa P520), which is a Japanese brand. However, that doesn't mean it is made in Japan. It might be assembled in Poland and the various components are probably manufactured in like 20 different (predominantly Asian) countries. If you look at the raw materials, there is a very large chance that this laptop is composed of minerals extracted from ores found in all five continents. When also including the trade lines, I can only conclude that my laptop is from everywhere. Just like pretty much all my other belongings. Thank you everybody!

[Vannaka]

I'm not sure if it's still happening, but i live in Michigan, USA, and i remember not too long ago Canada would pay us to take their trash.

[Earl_Listbard]

Italian Pizza
The Japanese Toyota Camry
The German Shepard
Armani clothes
Even most of our cell phones are made in other countries

Not even a mention of all those cities we built for you? I'm almost offended.

We don't pay Irish workers, we just give them whiskey.

Parallo you always impress me with how intelligent you are. Good job!!

Drey I wonder where the internet comes from?

4chan.

[zanzibar]

Here in the USA  we have many items we like that have origins (imports) from other countries.

For example:

Italian Pizza
The Japanese Toyota Camry
The German Shepard
Armani clothes
Even most of our cell phones are made in other countries

What are some of the favorites imported items and where do they come from? (please mention the country you live in) 
List anything from cars to shoes and anything in between.

I like science, mathematics, and philosophy: Imports from the middle east.

[Parallo]

Mathematics, yes. Philosophy, debatable but unlikely. Science, no. Unless Greece is in the middle east.

[Earl_Listbard]

...Philosophy...

Philosophy didn't come from a single location - it came from all locations.

As for science and mathematics, they have existed for as long as someone knew that two sticks were more then one, and that with two sticks one could dig in the dirt - or make fire.

[Parallo]

Philosophy first became a dicipline either in Babylon or Greece. Science is an extrapolation of philosophy and originated in Greece. Mathematics also originated in Babylon or Egypt.

[Farren Kutter]

Mathematics came when someone decided that two of something was more valuable than one. Many hundreds of years before either babylon or greece were very prevalent

The earliest (known) TEXTS on mathematics were babylonian and egyptian, yes, but mathematics has been around much longer than that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#Early_mathematics

[Parallo]

As a dicipline, something people might spend time at rather rather than hunting and fighting, a body of knowledge which people would study, in the sense we meant in this thread, it most definatly did not originate in 3000 BC.

[Farren Kutter]

You said mathematics. Mathematics in itself is not a study. Math is dealing with numbers, adding and subtracting being the most basic examples

I don't know what sense you meant it in, I am merely stating that mathematics has been around a lot longer than Egypt and all. Next time be more clear on your meaning?

[Parallo]

In the sense in which it can be an import maybe? Its not like we all know everything about mathematics inherently the moment we are born. If we did we wouldn't need to study it. Same goes for the other two unless we are speaking of the absolute fundamental basics. Then I would have called them cognition, cognition and cognition.