How the USA is regarded from the rest of the world

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13 Jan 2010, 11:39 am

MissConstrue wrote:

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america sucks lol

Every nation in the world sucks.

Not Norway and Sweden, you must be pretty bored if you think those nations sucks.

I hear it gets pretty cold up there.

That's one thing I think would keep me from moving there. Not a big fan of cold weather as it is.....

Here in Helsinki the weather is approximately the same as New York City except in summertime it's a lot pleasanter.

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13 Jan 2010, 1:35 pm

MissConstrue wrote:

I hear it gets pretty cold up there.

The only thing that even hints at not being awesome about Norway and Sweden.

...So Norway invented the Biathlon.

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13 Jan 2010, 2:30 pm

Asmodeus wrote:

MissConstrue wrote:

I hear it gets pretty cold up there.

The only thing that even hints at not being awesome about Norway and Sweden.

Many things are proven that Norway and Sweden are better than than the US, than almost all other, IF not all countries in the world.

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13 Jan 2010, 4:09 pm

Sweden is an awesome country. Hell, any Scandinavian country trumps the US.

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13 Jan 2010, 6:55 pm

NorraStjarna wrote:

Sweden is an awesome country. Hell, any Scandinavian country trumps the US.

What is not to love. Small and homogeneous. And no boom boxes or sideways turned baseball caps.

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14 Jan 2010, 1:03 am

NorraStjarna wrote:

Sweden is an awesome country. Hell, any Scandinavian country trumps the US.

Last time I read the stats, it stood that Finland was the worst scandinavian country to live in, no offense, but there so many shootings going on in schools there, it happened in a mall not so long ago too, so maybe that's the only scandinavian country that's worse than living in than the US, MAYBE, and Finland is a SMALL country, and many people tend to be killed in the shootings.

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14 Jan 2010, 4:46 am

I think the United States are also good because they are at least doing a decent job...

In protecting Singapore's waters.

They are stationed in our naval base and are doing a good job in helping us. Hmm, they are one of the few countries which are able to do so.

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14 Jan 2010, 6:57 am

We like America in Canada because it would be dangerous not too. But we don't follow lockstep with them or the rest of the world would want to bomb us too.

I like FORD engineering from america. And I like Americans in person.

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14 Jan 2010, 9:59 am

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Same here --- I like Americans too!! !

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16 Jan 2010, 12:45 pm

I think one important thing anyone has to keep in mind when critiquing this country is that one cannot make generalizations about the US. Sure, secular-minded people laugh at the conservative Deep South, and everyone laughs at California right now. But there are so many different parts to this country, each with its own culture. Maybe the US as a whole is only middling on some quality of life indicators (life expectancy, et. al.), but if we isolated it by state, I'm sure some states would score far higher than most people. Virginia, I think, may be in that situation.

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17 Jan 2010, 1:56 am

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So I can find a dream state that I like by travelling around all 50 states --- am I right?

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18 Jan 2010, 12:04 pm

lotuspuppy wrote:

Maybe the US as a whole is only middling on some quality of life indicators (life expectancy, et. al.), but if we isolated it by state, I'm sure some states would score far higher than most people. Virginia, I think, may be in that situation.

See here for a list of HDI's (Human Development Indicators) for the US states compared to various countries. Virginia indeed ranks highly, and the north-east as a whole plus some other states (HI, CA, CO, MN, IL) have HDI's as high as the highest nations in the world. One US state, Mississippi, has an HDI which would not even rank it as Developed.

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18 Jan 2010, 12:28 pm

I hate this country. Just about everything is made in China. The citizens are a bunch of dicks! This entire country is a cultural wasteland. I am f*****g sick and tired of the games Americans play on ME! I'm only staying here because it never gets bombed by the terrorists.

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18 Jan 2010, 12:32 pm

ruennsheng wrote:

lotuspuppy wrote:

So I can find a dream state that I like by travelling around all 50 states --- am I right?[/quote

No guarantees, but I think that's a true statement. Even within states, there's wide variation in all sorts of factors.

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18 Jan 2010, 12:35 pm

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lotuspuppy wrote:

Thanks for finding this. With due deference to our friends in the South, those states do skew our human development index numbers.

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