China: An emerging super power?

I keep hearing that China is going to become so very powerful and soon.

I honestly don't think China will be a super power soon, they have too many internal problems (rift between rich and poor, corruption, enviornment, various social issues, etc...)

Is it just people talking about things they don't really know anything about or is there some truth to this?  Thoughts?

>>46

See above

No, immigrants come to America and a process begins wherein over a few generations some of their cultural traits are added to the whole, and the rest are supplanted by the existing culture that is founded in the law.

Prior to the establishment of the USA there were already significant populations of English, Germans, Swedes, Dutch, French, Spaniards(primarily in the south and west of what would become the contemporary USA), and African Slaves in the mix.  The framers of the constitution were fully aware of the fact that they were creating a "Nation of Laws" for an already culturally and religiously divers population.  Of course culture has an effect.  That we speak English is an example of the profound influence the cultures some of the earliest settlers/immigrants had, but ultimately, and as it was intended, the law is the one and only thing that binds us together into a single entity.  It is the focal point, and when everybody's looking at the same thing, they eventually begin to see the same thing. 
This is a fundamental principle of constitutional law that many people fail to grasp.  You hear people claiming that the USA is a christian nation, or a white nation, while the writings of many of the framers specifically contradict these notions, as do the actions of the govt. over the last 230 years.