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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
DanneSandin on 13 February 2013
Player1x3 said:
DanneSandin said:

but make no mistake; there is no hot chicks in Germany :p

You have no idea what you're talking about

Actually! I don't =( Heidi Klum is kinda good looking I guess though ^^



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Michael-5 on 13 February 2013
Cobretti2 said:
whats with the weird grouping of AUS/CAN/NZ?

Former British Colonies, similar economy.

If it's voted a lot, I'll separate them in Round 3.



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Michael-5 on 13 February 2013
DanneSandin said:
Michael-5 said:
DanneSandin said:
Michael-5 said:

OOooo I forgot about the legalized prostitution. Now my hookers are clean!

LOL, still I think Holland is a nice place, it's better then weird loophole laws in Canada and USA where it's legal to buy Weed seeds (In Canada) and legally be able to pay for a stripper escort, who will usually do hooker services.

However I wouldn't want to live in Amsterdam. Isn't it below sea level like New Orleans? I know it's not in hurricane alley, and the dams aren't American made, but still.

yeah, it's below sea level - so they're pretty much screwed once the water levels start rising ^^ And it'a FLAT country, so no mountains and barely any hills. What fucked up place is THAT?!

Is Denmark below sea level???....I might just join you in Sweden, seems like the best place to be IMO. Sounds like a European Canada, with better looking women, heritage, and nicer cars.

Question, in Sweden do individuals vote on every law being passed? I heard that if the government wants to pass a contraversal law there, it has to also get majority vote. Mind you, I live in Canada, rumors of Europe tend to be a bit glorified/misinterpreted.

No, Denmark isn't below sea levels - Holland is - but it's flat as hell though ^^

No, we don't vote on every law that's being passed - that's Switzerland. We do vote on big events though. Like when we switch from driving on the left side to the right. We actually voted AGAINST changing on what side to drive on, but the government just said "screw you" ^^ we also voted about joining the EU and NOT to join the EMU (the euro) - which the government listened to. So we do vote on the "big" things :p But we got like 7 different political parties which all stand for different things, so when we vote for them we kinda know what we're getting the next 4 years.

Yea so then, anything North of Germany, including Germany is an ideal place for me then. I'd have to go there and decide first hand if I were to move, I know too little about Scandinavian and Germany society to be able to make a decision like that now, and I'd have to learn a new language, so that plays a card too (German sounds scary LOL).

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KHlover on 13 February 2013
Michael-5 said:
DanneSandin said:
Michael-5 said:
DanneSandin said:
Michael-5 said:

OOooo I forgot about the legalized prostitution. Now my hookers are clean!

LOL, still I think Holland is a nice place, it's better then weird loophole laws in Canada and USA where it's legal to buy Weed seeds (In Canada) and legally be able to pay for a stripper escort, who will usually do hooker services.

However I wouldn't want to live in Amsterdam. Isn't it below sea level like New Orleans? I know it's not in hurricane alley, and the dams aren't American made, but still.

yeah, it's below sea level - so they're pretty much screwed once the water levels start rising ^^ And it'a FLAT country, so no mountains and barely any hills. What fucked up place is THAT?!

Is Denmark below sea level???....I might just join you in Sweden, seems like the best place to be IMO. Sounds like a European Canada, with better looking women, heritage, and nicer cars.

Question, in Sweden do individuals vote on every law being passed? I heard that if the government wants to pass a contraversal law there, it has to also get majority vote. Mind you, I live in Canada, rumors of Europe tend to be a bit glorified/misinterpreted.

No, Denmark isn't below sea levels - Holland is - but it's flat as hell though ^^

No, we don't vote on every law that's being passed - that's Switzerland. We do vote on big events though. Like when we switch from driving on the left side to the right. We actually voted AGAINST changing on what side to drive on, but the government just said "screw you" ^^ we also voted about joining the EU and NOT to join the EMU (the euro) - which the government listened to. So we do vote on the "big" things :p But we got like 7 different political parties which all stand for different things, so when we vote for them we kinda know what we're getting the next 4 years.

Yea so then, anything North of Germany, including Germany is an ideal place for me then. I'd have to go there and decide first hand if I were to move, I know too little about Scandinavian and Germany society to be able to make a decision like that now, and I'd have to learn a new language, so that plays a card too (German sounds scary LOL).

Trust me, it only sounds scary on the internet. For example, "Schmetterling" actually is a nice word - IF YOU DONT SCREAM IT LIKE A RETARD!!!!!



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phinch1 on 13 February 2013
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.

 


England, it's pretty much like America in terms of muticultiralism except its been happening for thousands of more years......lol

 

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Michael-5 on 13 February 2013
KHlover said:
Michael-5 said:

Yea so then, anything North of Germany, including Germany is an ideal place for me then. I'd have to go there and decide first hand if I were to move, I know too little about Scandinavian and Germany society to be able to make a decision like that now, and I'd have to learn a new language, so that plays a card too (German sounds scary LOL).

Trust me, it only sounds scary on the internet. For example, "Schmetterling" actually is a nice word - IF YOU DONT SCREAM IT LIKE A RETARD!!!!!

I'd have to go there and see it. From what I hear RamStein songs are about making Toys in a factory and watching the snow fall and peacefull things and......it's hard rock.

Regardless, I'd rather learn German then live in Italy, or even move to the USA LOL



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KHlover on 13 February 2013
Michael-5 said:
KHlover said:
Michael-5 said:

Yea so then, anything North of Germany, including Germany is an ideal place for me then. I'd have to go there and decide first hand if I were to move, I know too little about Scandinavian and Germany society to be able to make a decision like that now, and I'd have to learn a new language, so that plays a card too (German sounds scary LOL).

Trust me, it only sounds scary on the internet. For example, "Schmetterling" actually is a nice word - IF YOU DONT SCREAM IT LIKE A RETARD!!!!!

I'd have to go there and see it. From what I hear RamStein songs are about making Toys in a factory and watching the snow fall and peacefull things and......it's hard rock.

Regardless, I'd rather learn German then live in Italy, or even move to the USA LOL

Haha, as a german it is really amusing to hear that Rammstein is actually used to measure how hard the german language sounds :D

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AlphaCielago on 13 February 2013
DanneSandin said:

No, Denmark isn't below sea levels - Holland is - but it's flat as hell though ^^

No, we don't vote on every law that's being passed - that's Switzerland. We do vote on big events though. Like when we switch from driving on the left side to the right. We actually voted AGAINST changing on what side to drive on, but the government just said "screw you" ^^ we also voted about joining the EU and NOT to join the EMU (the euro) - which the government listened to. So we do vote on the "big" things :p But we got like 7 different political parties which all stand for different things, so when we vote for them we kinda know what we're getting the next 4 years.


To be fair, in Sweden we have not voted on anything big except for the driving thing, EU, Alcohol, Euro, Nuclear crap and Old people stuff.



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kain_kusanagi on 13 February 2013
phinch1 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.

 


England, it's pretty much like America in terms of muticultiralism except its been happening for thousands of more years......lol

 

+ I can go to a shooting range, go to burger king and play halo 4 and drink mountain dew if i really wanted too

You and I both know that if you wanted to shoot a gun you would have to do a hell of a lot more than I would. For me it's as simple as unlocking my gun safe, driving to an outdoor area and setting up some targets. If you really wanted to shoot a gun, you will need to jump through a lot of hoops and it won't be your gun, unless you have an extremely restricted license and are a member of sanctioned club.

As for my examples of Burger King, Halo 4, etc. Those are just some examples of great stuff born in the USA that I enjoy.

I just listed a bunch of stuff that is as American as Hotdogs and Baseball. Sure you can buy a hotdog in Germany and watch baseball in Japan, but you know what I mean.



fordy on 13 February 2013
kain_kusanagi said:

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


So that's one example, now if you can provide examplesfor all other countries above the US in cultural diversity, then you might be on to something.

On top of this, the "melting pot" concept is actually seen as intolerable towards other cultures, because the concept is that cultures mix to form ONE culture, and is AGAINST diversity. Multiculturalism aims to preserve cultures and build tolerance between them. See melting pot vs multiculturalism.

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