Not answered by those who highly value privacy 
Fair!
That is not allowed in California because you have in effect not recognizing them as Americans. Can be sued if you ask your colleagues that question. Please donāt ask them.
I donāt know if they are american citizens, permanent residents, or visa.
They are probably not my co-workers, and even if they are, I donāt believe me asking this question on a forum constitutes as anything 
I donāt recall ever working with any tomatoesā¦ definitely not a colleague. I do know someone who has worked with tomato DNA however.
gmo - love it. we need more of them to feed a whole world.
Yes, Chinese people are much better than white people in this regard.
Eh.
Yeah, privacy please 
Privacy fits into the spectrum of individual rights vs community benefits. Chinese and asians most influenced by Chinese culture like Koreans and Japanese tend to value community benefits more than individual rights.
There is no right or wrong. Different trade offs.
America has an anti establishment tradition. Itās hard coded into its founding myth: the Wild West, cowboys, cars and guns. I donāt think any other country has in its constitution the right to bear arms to fight against the government.
Yeah, America is very unique. All other countries have or had Kings and queens, USA is a country with no king, no queen, only god and individual people. Itās surprising that US has a big and utterly inefficient govnement.
Government can go out of hand. So itās ok for the people to bear arms to fight against bad or overarching government.
But I think a database of dna and personal info is ok. You can buy guns and kill the government who wants to use your dna against you, but you want to have the convenience to find a matching transplant to save lives
Do you think itās what eventually fosters innovation: individuality?
My view on this is governments are not necessarily to be trusted (hello, middle eastern countries, hello oppressive governments). It happens eventually everywhere.
Itās the checks and balances that prevents government from going rouge. When it goes rouge, you are on your own. Ask a holocaust survivor - btw, this happened for plenty of other nations, through out different times in history.
you make everything public, create databases, you are in deep trouble.
However, i can see a database helping foster health care (like finding genes that increases cancer risk, and using techniques to passivize them and so on). Lose some, gain some.
No. USA is still a young nation from a history of mankind perspective. Saying its system is sustainable and its system work best is recency biasā¦ Of course, from our lifetime, well that is a different perspective 
Which countries have significant longetivity, that seem to work nicely?
Also, I am not sure if we have seen as much innovation as we have seen in last 2 centuries before.
Not obvious? Nations went through boom and bustā¦ recall there is an Ottoman empire in middle east China went through boom and bust, each dynasty boom and bust, and still around after 5000 years of recorded history. Progress is exponential.
sure
PS: I drank america koolaid.
Yes, saying US system is best is terribly short sighted. If europe didnāt destroyed itself twice in the two world wars Britain may still be the biggest power. Do people remember where relativity and quantum mechanics were discovered?
When asked to comment on the effects of the French Revolution the great Zhou Enlai replied: itās too early to tell.
China is the most successful nation in the history of mankind. However, I enjoy living in America much more 