The mentality of Chinese culture

Why does the average american fear that china, and for that matter every other developing nation, pose a threat to our livelihoods? China will be around for a long time, just as they have always been around for a long time. China and others are taking away our jobs, they say. China, everyone is agreeing is not as sophisticated or smart as we are. Why do we feel threatened? I will tell you why. China is developing and we are supposedley developed. If we are developed, why do we sit in the shadows of our current jobs and not aspire to learn more, or to develop even more. China is not the obstacle that our way of life has to deal with, our way of learning is our obstacle. Just because we have been used to the same job description for 20 years, shouldn't mean that we should find that lull to retire to. As a developed ecomony we should be constantly reinventing ourselves. Challenge our current roles. China will take over many roles that as a developed society we should not want. The problem is that us as a society should redevelop our society. Our society is content with developed and doesn't want to further that. We should want every opportunity to advance even further. Does developed mean that we can no longer, or wish, to no longer further our minds. America will always be the leader in my lifetime, but it should be the leader in wanting to learn and explore. If you have read the book "the world is flat" by thomas friedman, then I commend you. I couldn't finish it. It was about the idea that we need to sacrifice our lower end jobs to others. We will as a society, just as every other society, need to have those people. It is ireversible that, that will ever not happen. We will always need the tom, dick , and harry's. We also need tom, dick, and harry to read and become more educated and advance our society. China will never take away all of our meaningless jobs, but we should make sure that the jobs they are capable of performing lead us to better more sophisticed jobs that we want and learn.