The optimism bias has been observed in many different countries in Western cultures, in non Western cultures, in females and males, in kids, in the elderly.

He likes Western culture.

Let's kick some ass!!!

Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor are they traditionally Islamic.

One answer lies deep in our cultural history.

Atlantic islands

And so, what after that?

Anyway.

Western

I will start at 1858.

And yet, despite the enormous disparities today, we have seen 200 years of remarkable progress.

Atlantic Time New Brunswick

(Laughter)

like civilizations.

Atlantic Standard Time Quebec Lower North Shore

There we are today.

Pacific Time west British Columbia

Mosaddeq revolution.

Muslims. Sunni as well as Shiites.

Look what happened by 2000 to the average call.

It appeals to pity. It appeals to something called charity.

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize.

The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic with the Pacific.

Now, Josh Rushing actually ended up leaving the military and taking a job with Al Jazeera.

They crossed the Atlantic Ocean.

Susan Parks of Penn State has actually studied this.

So here, if you look at this poster, it has all the trappings of Western culture.

The canal connects the Atlantic with the Pacific.

We, the United States had gotten everything from

It is also shaped equally by history and culture.

We flew across the Atlantic.

Islam is the majority religion all the way from the Atlantic Ocean across the Middle East,

And my timing was not great either

Well, I leave that one up to you to judge.

Take marriage for example.

We can look at our own history. The late physicist Gerard O'Neill said,

We'll look at sea level rise.

Atlantic Time Labrador most locations

And that's their problem we're eating them to death.

(Laughter)

And this is what the story's all about.

I once asked one of my colleagues at Harvard,

The financial crisis is really a relatively small historic phenomenon, which has just accelerated this huge shift, which ends half a millennium of Western ascendancy.

NOTlCE! ...

So we've done that all over the Eastern Pacific.