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What Developed Country do you Envy?

Australia 10 18.87%
 
Canada 5 9.43%
 
Denmark 0 0%
 
Germany 6 11.32%
 
Japan 10 18.87%
 
Norway 3 5.66%
 
Sweden 4 7.55%
 
United Kingdom 3 5.66%
 
USA 1 1.89%
 
See Results 11 20.75%
 
Total:53
Michael-5 on 12 February 2013
Zappykins said:
Michael-5 said:
Bajablo said:
 

Yeah :) it's kinda cool. I like the US
Only sad part is the stupid are allowed to breed too :(, but that could be said for allmost any country.
US is just a bit over-represented with the stupids

Why are some Americans so stupid? I've been reading this book called "A Peoples History of the United States." and it's pretty interesting. I think Southern Americans got used to slaves a couple hundred years ago, and when slavery was suddenly abolished, they just never stopped being lazy. Give them a book, and proper education, and I think they could be just as smart as us.

Jay520 said:
Not Canada

Not the question, but....LOL. Yea, alright.

There some sort of Pride at being ignorant with many Americans (US Citizens).  I find it a rather odd and baffling thing.   A number of people are arrogant and proud of the fact they know little of the outside world. 

I remember I was scheduling something in Ohio and it was a Friday and they asked me to come back on Monday, cause their computer was down, or something like that.  I said, "I will be out of State next Week."

The lady looked at my with a outraged concern and said, "Why would anyone ever want to do that?!?"  (she was serious.)

Now it isn't all of them by any means.  But a number do not want their ideas that they have the best of everything be challenged by learning about other places.

LMFAO, yea I've heard that a lot when I went on trips to the USA, typically Georgia has a lot of this attitude.

Making these threads, I aprreciate Europe so much more. I honestly don't min Canada, but I wish we had more then just USA as our neighbours. I wish Russia never sold Alaska, just so we couldn't have more culture.

This is why I really appreciate Montreal, it's at least different, very similar to Europe (But not France... :-/) I just wish we had more countries because there is just so much more diversity. I wish North America was civilized like Europe, but instead because USA is so mega-corporate, were kinda just sitting on the sides, away from everyone.



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Simulacrum on 12 February 2013
the2real4mafol said:
I picked Northern Europe/ Canada because i love the cold winters anyway, and snow is something of a rare feature in the UK normally. Plus there economies are doing better than many developed countries and they don't waste money intervening in conflicts all the time. Jobs are not so scarce there, and they often have social benefits like free healthcare at least in Canada anyway. I know education is completely free in Finland anyway.


Well no its not completly...But basicly any student can live on his own, without any help from his/her parents.

I envy USA for its art,interesting places,beaches and other beautiful,even simple, nature related thing.But I would never want to live there.

Sad..



 

 

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Faxanadu on 12 February 2013
ROFLMAO said:
If I was to be born again and I could choose, I'd be Japanese. The culture is amazing, as are the food, creativity and women. Though being born in Australia again or crossing the ditch to NZ wouldn't be bad at all, Strong economies, laid-back living, good services and in NZ, #1 freedom in the world.

Just try not to be born as a woman.



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SuperMarioWorld on 12 February 2013

Why isn't Australia on the poll? It's only the best country in the world



gergroy on 12 February 2013
Michael-5 said:
Zappykins said:
Michael-5 said:

Why are some Americans so stupid? I've been reading this book called "A Peoples History of the United States." and it's pretty interesting. I think Southern Americans got used to slaves a couple hundred years ago, and when slavery was suddenly abolished, they just never stopped being lazy. Give them a book, and proper education, and I think they could be just as smart as us.

Jay520 said:
Not Canada

Not the question, but....LOL. Yea, alright.

There some sort of Pride at being ignorant with many Americans (US Citizens).  I find it a rather odd and baffling thing.   A number of people are arrogant and proud of the fact they know little of the outside world. 

I remember I was scheduling something in Ohio and it was a Friday and they asked me to come back on Monday, cause their computer was down, or something like that.  I said, "I will be out of State next Week."

The lady looked at my with a outraged concern and said, "Why would anyone ever want to do that?!?"  (she was serious.)

Now it isn't all of them by any means.  But a number do not want their ideas that they have the best of everything be challenged by learning about other places.

LMFAO, yea I've heard that a lot when I went on trips to the USA, typically Georgia has a lot of this attitude.

Making these threads, I aprreciate Europe so much more. I honestly don't min Canada, but I wish we had more then just USA as our neighbours. I wish Russia never sold Alaska, just so we couldn't have more culture.

This is why I really appreciate Montreal, it's at least different, very similar to Europe (But not France... :-/) I just wish we had more countries because there is just so much more diversity. I wish North America was civilized like Europe, but instead because USA is so mega-corporate, were kinda just sitting on the sides, away from everyone.

seriously guys?  you are trying to stereotype something so incredibly diverse as American culture?  My next door neighbors are immigrants from Iran.  The people across the street are from Germany.  Two doors down is a mexican family.  They are all American!

USA is a melting pot of cultures, how you could stereotype it is beyond me, because it only makes you seem ignorant.  Same could be said for pretty much any country or people, stereotypes are a poor way of talking about a culture.



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Weedlab on 12 February 2013
IsawYoshi said:
Weedlab said:
Envy?No. But admiration .. Yes. Scandinavian countries, especially Norway. Boss healthcare system.

Yes indeed. But we complain about it all the time (6 months waiting line for people with certain diseases, sometimes even cancer :o)


Ah I see. That's interesting. Where I come from everything is strictly out of pocket, so I suppose that is still better than the 'system' in my country. I understand the taxers are higher in Norway so there's relativley less disposable income, but the social safety nets are much wider. I prefer that system.



 

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Faxanadu on 12 February 2013

i am very suprised so few say Italy / France / Spain



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kain_kusanagi on 12 February 2013
fordy said:
kain_kusanagi said:
fordy said:
kain_kusanagi said:

The Great Melting Pot of America is one of my favorite things about. So many people from so many other cultures coming together to make a new culture.


Huh? You make it sound like no other country embraces multiculturalism.


America has one of if not the richest history of immigration. Sure lots of nations embrace their multiculturalism, but if you could give an example of even one country with a more diverse population I'd tip my hat to you.

 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level

I can't tip my hat just yet because your list isn't talking about the kind of melting pot I'm talking about. Let's take your list's Number 1 most "diverse" nation, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is comprised of Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4%.

Those are all groups that have more in common than they have differences. That's not the kind of diversity I was talking about. I was talking about how the USA is made up of people from so many different nations of who's nations are made up of so many different cultures and subcultures.

The USA ranks low on your list because it it's so much broader that it gets simplified to white 79.96%, black 12.85%, Asian 4.43%, Amerindian and Alaska native 0.97%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.18%, two or more races 1.61.

What does "white" or "black" mean? To your list it just means that, people of European and African descent. But you and I both know that broad terms like White or Black or Asian can mean hundreds of thousands of different cultures.

Can you imagine the list of cultures within the USA if it was given the specifics that the Afghanistan data was? It's almost impossible to even collect that amount of data. The US Census just asks for race, but the Afghanistan list shows nationality. All the people of the Afghanistan list would get lumped into the USA's data as one statistic.

But on top of that. I was really talking about how the USA's larger culture is a sum of it's parts. The Great Melting Pot of the USA is so grand that today we live in a county that looks like a snapshot of the entire planet, culturally speaking.

 

Source: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_eth_gro-people-ethnic-groups



Michael-5 on 12 February 2013
SuperMarioWorld said:
Why isn't Australia on the poll? It's only the best country in the world

I...made the options poorly.

I added it to Round 2 due to the options

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=154938&page=1#



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Michael-5 on 12 February 2013
gergroy said:
Michael-5 said:
Zappykins said:
Michael-5 said:

Why are some Americans so stupid? I've been reading this book called "A Peoples History of the United States." and it's pretty interesting. I think Southern Americans got used to slaves a couple hundred years ago, and when slavery was suddenly abolished, they just never stopped being lazy. Give them a book, and proper education, and I think they could be just as smart as us.

Jay520 said:
Not Canada

Not the question, but....LOL. Yea, alright.

There some sort of Pride at being ignorant with many Americans (US Citizens).  I find it a rather odd and baffling thing.   A number of people are arrogant and proud of the fact they know little of the outside world. 

I remember I was scheduling something in Ohio and it was a Friday and they asked me to come back on Monday, cause their computer was down, or something like that.  I said, "I will be out of State next Week."

The lady looked at my with a outraged concern and said, "Why would anyone ever want to do that?!?"  (she was serious.)

Now it isn't all of them by any means.  But a number do not want their ideas that they have the best of everything be challenged by learning about other places.

LMFAO, yea I've heard that a lot when I went on trips to the USA, typically Georgia has a lot of this attitude.

Making these threads, I aprreciate Europe so much more. I honestly don't min Canada, but I wish we had more then just USA as our neighbours. I wish Russia never sold Alaska, just so we couldn't have more culture.

This is why I really appreciate Montreal, it's at least different, very similar to Europe (But not France... :-/) I just wish we had more countries because there is just so much more diversity. I wish North America was civilized like Europe, but instead because USA is so mega-corporate, were kinda just sitting on the sides, away from everyone.

seriously guys?  you are trying to stereotype something so incredibly diverse as American culture?  My next door neighbors are immigrants from Iran.  The people across the street are from Germany.  Two doors down is a mexican family.  They are all American!

USA is a melting pot of cultures, how you could stereotype it is beyond me, because it only makes you seem ignorant.  Same could be said for pretty much any country or people, stereotypes are a poor way of talking about a culture.

Were not stereotyping, if you clearly look at the very very first post, it specifically states some americans. Yes you have a Mexican, a German, and whatever on your street, but chances are the person operating the teller at WalGreens is completly daft.

In USA you see a lot of arrogent people, who have never left the country, but insist that USA is the best.

You also get a high % of brain dead people, specifically in rural towns in the south (Omg....I have a story for when my car broke down in hicktown New York, and my sister was naming the pimples on the mechanics face...She's not a child, he was just really ugly).

Ahh...anyway, enough US mockery, we could do this for too long.



P.S. I just want to mention something. You know the Internet Top Level Domains (TLDs), such as .uk and .ca? I bet if I went down the street in the USA and asked them what their TLD is, they would say .com LOL Americans are so arrogent, they think every company is American, so the .com domain is American. It's .us, and I'm glad to see a lot of international companies with headquarters in the USA starting to have a country/region directory on the main page when you type www.___.com



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