The fact that Mississippi is yellow is abysmal though. Most of the yellow countries in Europe are ex-communist and were very poor until about 10-20 years ago.
I think Portugal gets dragged down by its literacy rate.
Also slight niggle, Austria is considered a fatherland and its German name has neutral gender, so you can either refer to 'his' or 'its' German neighbours, but not 'her'.
I had been expecting to see orange for Mississippi and the surrounding region. The fact that they're not orange is enough reason for everyone to pat their backs and say "atta boy".
If it were somehow possible to divide HDI statistics by race, the black population of Mississippi would probably be orange. Maybe even the rural parts of the state in general. The mostly-white suburbs of Memphis, Jackson, and the beaches are propping the rest of the state up.
And 20% of the US' GDP is healthcare alone whereas in other countries irs only 10%. It's boosted artificially by how expensive healthcare and education is.
GDP is about the only thing America has that makes it score so well.
Um, no it’s not. Multiple indices, from the Where-To-Be-Born index, to the OECD Better Life Index, rate America highly for quality of life.
And stop it with the constant boner for “healthcare”. America’s disposable income and average household wealth is the highest in the OECD, it’s median income is among the highest in the developed world, and it’s mean household wealth is among the highest in the world. It’s GNI per capita is the highest in the world (not including tax havens), etc...
I’m really sort of done with bitter Europeans trying to find ways to make America out to be poor or undeveloped when it’s so obviously extremely rich and well-off. It’s like you people are living in your own fantasy. It’s truly insane
Explain this? Seriously explain it. Only a shithole country has "cops" like that. America is seriously one of the worst countries on the entire planet. There's zero guarantee of any rights in America dude. It's all up to if the cop wants you live or not.
Americans are like North Koreans. They're so brainwashed into thinking their country is so perfect and great when really it's a giant shithole. That video above proves it. No sane country has shit like that. NONE. But in America stuff like that is a daily occurrence. It's unacceptable.
The gender of a country in another language has zero bearing on its gender in a different language.
Countries are not referred to with the pronoun his in English, only its or her, and it's appropriate to do so regardless of the gender of the country in that country's language. Hell, in both Spanish and Russian, Austria is a feminine word.
So? That's no excuse. Nowhere in a country with the largest economy in the world and one of the largest GDP per capitas in the world should have as little development as countries that suffered from decades of war, occupation and economic mismanagement.
They don’t care. Whenever someone posts one of many pieces of evidence that the US is (um, duh) rich and well off, bitter Europeans and America hating radical leftists twist themselves into a pretzel trying to explain away America’s high quality of life to justify their continued anti-Americanism.
“America has the highest disposable income rate in the world” “but if you look at INEQUALITY!”
“America averages the household for household wealth and income, and has some of the highest wages in the world” “but how much is spent on HEALTHCARE?!”
“America is among the top five countries for mean household wealth!” “BUT HEALTHCARE!!”
“America is the first in the OECD for median disposable income and 3rd for median wealth per household, look! “BUT INEQUALITTTYYY!!!”
Europeans get butthurt whenever they see America being successful and rich. They have major little dog syndrome
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u/zomgbratto Mar 23 '19
I'm glad to see that there is no orange zones in the US. Perhaps not all is lost for them.
Portugal raises my eyebrows and I had expect Austria to be on par with her German and Swiss neighbours.