dsgrue3 said:
I'm not oblivious to US problems. USA may very well have a higher poverty rate than China, but if you believe our standards for the poverty line are the same you're in for a rude awakening.
When I say pollution I mean air quality. "China air pollution beyond Index" http://www.sullivanjournal.com/sports/outdoors/article_0451bc46-73af-11e2-99ff-001a4bcf6878.html Obesity is a personal issue, unlike pollution, censorship, poverty, health codes, standard of living, tossing babies in the garbage due to restrictions on number of offspring, building codes, safety codes (200 burn in a warehouse - doors locked from the outside). Once again, Michael, you have not a clue to which you speak. It's pretty hilarious, honestly. |
That statistic is gave you is a CIA statistic, and it's a representation of how capable you are of buying goods in order to live. While the Chinese poverty line is $1.25 per day, and the USA line is $40 a day, $1.25 in China gets you about the same amount of goods/services. For instance You can buy 10kg of rice in China (not in major cities) for about 50 cents, in USA it's about $15. Do the math.
As for Air Quality, it's only in major cities in China where you have an aerosol concentration at around 800ppm (Typical US/Canadian limitations are about 20-30ppm). However that will go down, just like it did in North America (we had it as bad as 100ppm). I wouldn't want to live in Bejing either, but what about the mountainside?
Obesity is not a personal issue, I hate taking public transportation because of fat two seaters squishing me into a half seat. Obese people take up space, and Obese people are hideous. I'd rather live in Europe, where the people are nicer, better looking, and not as ignorant.
USA doesn't have abortions? I know the 1 child law is pretty messed up in China, and as a result you get an inbalanced ratio of males to females. China isn't a good place to live, but I wouldn't say it's any worse then USA.
Half the reasons why you don't want to live in China are similar reasons as to why people don't want to live in USA. Poverty (higher then in China), Health Standards (Healthcare primarily for the rich), standards of living (Corporations bleeding poor people out of all their money and good meaningful jobs), safety codes (New Oreans floods because of foorly built damns at a bad location, new damns built in the same location), etc
And don't bring insults into this, honestly. I'm just telling you why USA is scored as high as China, it's only Americans which look at USA fondly, USA is a clusterf*** of problems, which isn't seen as extensively as in Japan/South Korea/Europe. Leave the USA and see how many people think the USA is a good place to live. It's nothing compared to Europe.
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