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Poll: Opinion of the USA
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View Poll Results: How does your nation view the United States?
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Positively
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39.80% |
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Neutrally
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27.36% |
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Negatively
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Member Since: 8/20/2011
Posts: 9,381
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Originally posted by Golden
Your higher education is great, I agree. But what about high school education? You spend arguably the most important time in high school.  |
please, consider what you say before you post it.
most people go to college for more than 4 years, and YES i know people drop out.
you're gonna tell me going to high school for 4 years is better than going to medical school or law school for 6+ years?
bye
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Member Since: 1/11/2012
Posts: 14,421
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Originally posted by SpecialK
1. I can't read that bolded incoherent mess
2. 'On the off chance'? Search the definition of globalization and educate yourself. It's all about building connections these days.
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"I already responded to that post, stating when you said that saying that that is a stupid reason."
Is that better? I keep forgetting to spell things out for you, since I guess you don't speak English very well?
& again, you don't know what you're talking about.
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Member Since: 10/17/2011
Posts: 1,788
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With regards to the discussion on US education:
US Schools in well-off regions of this country are as good or better than primary or secondary schools anywhere else. Sadly, the US does very badly at educating its poor, and the US has the highest poverty rate in the advanced industrialized world. That drags our average down.
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Member Since: 8/20/2011
Posts: 12,590
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Health care is a national thing. If there is a problem in health care its as a nation.
Education and happiness is determined on where you live.
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Member Since: 2/15/2010
Posts: 26,154
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Originally posted by CoolestPerson12
Wait, so you're using statistics to back up your claim? Do you know how unreliable statistics are? And those countries, are smaller in population in compared to the US. Show me a country with a high population like the US. Where's Japan? Indonesia? China? India?
And you look desperate now.
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Y'all always have got the population and size excuse right in your back pocket. Sis, these are statistics. Doesn't matter how big the population is.
I'm just trying to prove a point, your country isn't as great as it seems to be.
Go ahead and compare the EU with USA. It would still rank higher. 
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Member Since: 12/15/2011
Posts: 1,698
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Originally posted by Golden
Very important and vital things to indicate happiness. Fact is, U.S.A didn't even score near the top 20. 
Netherlands has always ranked atop healthcare list, education lists & happiness lists. It's not even comparable.
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Fair enough. The USA does have a large amount of unemployed, uneducated individuals, but that's simply inevitable in a larger country. And it's not easily fixed either.
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Member Since: 3/16/2006
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Neutral. I'd much rather live in England/UK than US though.
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Member Since: 2/15/2010
Posts: 26,154
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Originally posted by FelixMonster
please, consider what you say before you post it.
most people go to college for more than 4 years, and YES i know people drop out.
you're gonna tell me going to high school for 4 years is better than going to medical school or law school for 6+ years?
bye
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I'm not saying that. I'm saying you spend very important time in high school. You build confidence there, you learn the basic steps -- you get nowhere without the basic steps.
Also, drop out rates are huge in the USA, drop out rates here are little to none.
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Member Since: 1/11/2012
Posts: 14,421
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Originally posted by LONGWAY2GO.
Neutral. I'd much rather live in England/UK than US though.
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Someday I'd like to visit the UK to see how different it is. It seems like a great place.
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Member Since: 8/20/2011
Posts: 9,381
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Originally posted by Mr. Know It All
Fair enough. The USA does have a large amount of unemployed, uneducated individuals, but that's simply inevitable in a larger country. And it's not easily fixed either.
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he keeps ignoring the fact that we have almost 300 million more people to look after.
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
Posts: 20,576
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Quote:
Originally posted by Golden
Y'all always have got the population and size excuse right in your back pocket. Sis, these are statistic. Doesn't matter how big the population is.
I'm just trying to prove a point, your country isn't as great as it seems to be.
Go ahead and compare the EU with USA. It would still rank higher.
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But even so, you fail to recognize every state is different. Don't you understand that the US is made of 50 states, and has different cultures, races, and ethnicities. Your country has it easy its small, everyone looks the same, its homogeneous. Its not diverse.
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Member Since: 8/20/2011
Posts: 9,381
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Quote:
Originally posted by Golden
I'm not saying that. I'm saying you spend very important time in high school. You build confidence there, you learn the basic steps -- you get nowhere without the basic steps.
Also, drop out rates are huge in the USA, drop out rates here are little to none.
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LMFAO WHAT?!
when did this turn to being confident in yourself?
last time i checked, americans were being called OVER confident.
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Quote:
Originally posted by Golden
I'm not saying that. I'm saying you spend very important time in high school. You build confidence there, you learn the basic steps -- you get nowhere without the basic steps.
Also, drop out rates are huge in the USA, drop out rates here are little to none.
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Because the schools are tougher, it may be so because the schools where you're from are easier. And you build yourself in college, not HS. You learn the basics steps in college, you're independent in college. College is the most important time in your life, and Americans are lucky to have a good higher education system.
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Member Since: 2/15/2010
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Originally posted by FelixMonster
he keeps ignoring the fact that we have almost 300 million more people to look after.
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What kind of excuse is that? It's not my problem nor scientists' problem that your country is huge and your population is very high. Some of states are the size of a few European countries combined. And yes, that's inevitable. Statistics will still have to be measured, somehow.
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Member Since: 10/17/2011
Posts: 1,788
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Originally posted by FelixMonster
he keeps ignoring the fact that we have almost 300 million more people to look after.
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So? The US accounts for 5% of the world population and 20% of the world's yearly economic output. As a country we have PER PERSON more money than almost every other country in the world. That being the case the size of our population is no excuse. We ain't India or China, with hundreds of millions of poor subsistance peasants.
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Member Since: 2/15/2010
Posts: 26,154
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Originally posted by CoolestPerson12
But even so, you fail to recognize every state is different. Don't you understand that the US is made of 50 states, and has different cultures, races, and ethnicities. Your country has it easy its small, everyone looks the same, its homogeneous. Its not diverse.
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EU 5%
Indonesian 2.4%
Turkish 2.2%
Moroccan 2%
Surinamese 2.%
Netherlands Antilles/Aruba 0.83%
Other 8.36%
Bye. Walk around the streets of Amsterdam and you see different faces and cultures EVERYWHERE.
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Member Since: 8/20/2011
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In the US a person pays taxes to both the national government and their indivdual state.
The states job is to decide what they want to do with that money. Some states decide to put money into their schools to provide books and the best education possible. Other states take that money to put into something else. Your state decides what they want to do with their tax dollars.
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Member Since: 12/14/2011
Posts: 21,274
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What I don't understand is how one country can be 'better' or 'worse' than another — at least if those two countries are somewhat similar in terms of development.
Not only are things completely different within different locations in a specific country, but a nation as large as the U.S. with undoubtedly mean different things to different people with different views and different motivations. I'm not huge on Canada for superficial and competitive reasons, but I don't go up to Canadians and tell them that my country is better than theirs. 
Every place has its own strengths and its own issues.
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Member Since: 12/15/2011
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Quote:
Originally posted by Golden
Y'all always have got the population and size excuse right in your back pocket. Sis, these are statistics. Doesn't matter how big the population is.
I'm just trying to prove a point, your country isn't as great as it seems to be.
Go ahead and compare the EU with USA. It would still rank higher.
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Well, the European Union selects nations specifically suited to contribute positively, making it difficult for less developed countries to enter (remember the Turkey fiasco?); therefore, I'd expect the EU as a whole to far better than the US. Plus, Europe is indubitably wealthier than any other continent (I'm not even sure North America is close).
However, size definitely makes a massive difference when domestic policies are concerned. It's much, much easier to please ten million people than a hundred million. Why do you think China is the way it is? It has to be. Nothing else works for them. For that reason, I don't think it's fair to simply say the United States is on equal footing with most other nations.
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Member Since: 3/16/2006
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Originally posted by ethan
Someday I'd like to visit the UK to see how different it is. It seems like a great place.
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I agree, beautiful places and people. I wouldn't leave my country to live in the US, but i definitely would if i had the chance to live in UK or Canada.
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