Perception and thoughts about USA

If you don't have a higher GDP per Capita, you aren't as well off. If you're GDP per Capita is 1/3 that of the United States as it is in Slovakia, the example YOU used, we shouldn't be trying to emulate you, you should be trying to emulate us.

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Stachuk1992 said:
I disagree with krazedkat on all other points, but I agree with the above.
Money is nice, but not how we should rate people, nor countries.
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Then he probably shouldn't be telling us that one system of economics is better, when the simple facts show it isn't.

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If you want to rate countries by happiness though, you should know that the US has a lower suicide rate than countries he's listed as being well off, such as Slovakia, Canada, France, Norway, and Denmark, aka every country he's listed.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
 
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Look money isn't everything. You also have to take into account prices, resources, climate and MULTIPLE other things to tell if someone is "better off". Besides. Which Canadian laws demonstrate socialism?
 
krazedkat said:
Look money isn't everything. You also have to take into account prices, resources, climate and MULTIPLE other things to tell if someone is "better off". Besides. Which Canadian laws demonstrate socialism?
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Read my Edit on my previous post.

Also, Canada has:
Socialized Medicine
A very involved welfare system (SA)
Unemployment Insurance
Personal Tax Rates around 30% on average
and a ton of other stuff that you can find by using the google.

I'm not claiming many of these things don't exist in the United States, I'm just answering his question.
 
When non-US forum members say socialist, they don't mean communist. Generally when you say the word socialist to an american, Stalin, goulags and the Gosplan come to their minds. When europeans say socialism, they mean to talk about ideas such as universal free healthcare, wellfare protection, trustworthy public services, solidarity.... In which case I would say that France is definately a country with socialist values.
 
Ethan Rosen and krazedkat, you guys have degenerated into a nit-picking pissing match. You need to elevate the level of discussion to something other than "it depends on what the meaning of "is" is". This is a forum, if you're going to carry on a person to person discussion, take it to PM.
 
i hate the racism in america, not against the black people, but against latins indians,chinese, middle-eastern as an indian i get the racist card often. And absolutely hate it when people ask me to do the accent..uhh... and when other people do it.
 
skarian said:
i hate the racism in america, not against the black people, but against latins indians,chinese, middle-eastern as an indian i get the racist card often. And absolutely hate it when people ask me to do the accent..uhh... and when other people do it.
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That is ****. I'm a middle-easterner and I don't get that much racism because I'm not VISIBLY asian but when in airports, when they see my passport, I am sometimes "randomly" selected for extra screening just because of my background.
 
krazedkat said:
skarian said:
i hate the racism in america, not against the black people, but against latins indians,chinese, middle-eastern as an indian i get the racist card often. And absolutely hate it when people ask me to do the accent..uhh... and when other people do it.
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That is ****. I'm a middle-easterner and I don't get that much racism because I'm not VISIBLY asian but when in airports, when they see my passport, I am sometimes "randomly" selected for extra screening just because of my background.
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I'm a white American with no background of any culture that you are describing in which you say many people are racist against. I don't travel much but twice I've been 'randomly' selected to have extra screening.
 
brunson said:
Ethan Rosen and krazedkat, you guys have degenerated into a nit-picking pissing match. You need to elevate the level of discussion to something other than "it depends on what the meaning of "is" is". This is a forum, if you're going to carry on a person to person discussion, take it to PM.
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He is literally unable to figure out what the word "rate" means in "suicide rate." I really don't think I can be blamed for this...
 
krazedkat said:
I'm not VISIBLY asian but when in airports, when they see my passport, I am sometimes "randomly" selected for extra screening just because of my background.
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Yeah? So? I have too. And I'm not in any minority. It really is random - it might've been more biased several years ago, but they're not allowed to do that anymore, even though it would actually make sense to be target certain groups. (How many airline terrorists are families, seriously?)
 
qqwref said:
krazedkat said:
I'm not VISIBLY asian but when in airports, when they see my passport, I am sometimes "randomly" selected for extra screening just because of my background.
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Yeah? So? I have too. And I'm not in any minority. It really is random - it might've been more biased several years ago, but they're not allowed to do that anymore, even though it would actually make sense to be target certain groups. (How many airline terrorists are families, seriously?)
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You really shouldn't target anyone. The minute they know how to get a leg up on you is the minute they take advantage of our weakness again. It needs to be truly random.
 
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