EPTWhat is the best country in the world? - Page 2
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
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Chesner
Iceland817 Posts
On August 19 2010 04:18 sykur wrote: This list is wrong. Iceland isn't in the top 100 on this list. I want them to explain how Kenya and Iran are better than Iceland. But Iceland is in top 10. But Iceland is in top 5 on the UN best countries list. Yeah exactly, was pretty surprised by that O_O | ||
Empyrean
16987 Posts
On August 19 2010 04:52 hifriend wrote: lol @ americans bitching about not magically placing #1 in every category If I could speak German well, the first thing I'd do is move to Zurich T_T | ||
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BroOd
Austin10831 Posts
On August 19 2010 04:52 hifriend wrote: lol @ americans bitching about not magically placing #1 in every category I don't see any bitching of the sort... | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32055 Posts
Momma taught me table manners. I'm finishing my cheeseburger first. | ||
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MetalMarine
United States1559 Posts
On August 19 2010 04:52 hifriend wrote: lol @ americans bitching about not magically placing #1 in every category Where? | ||
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
Sorry I was referring to the comments below the survey results and twitter. Not here on tl though.  Daniel Just wondering - where would the top 100 countries be without the USA? Where would Newsweek be? Newsweeks criteria are distant second place to the simple criteria of: who has contributed the most to the advancement of freedom, education, health, economic improvement, quality of life worldwide in the history of mankind? The world would be a very different place. Time to stepup Newsweek, and express the appropriate gratitude that is long overdue!!!!!!!!!!!!!! US is not in the top 10, are you kidding me??? No offense but in my opinion US is the best country to live in That so few of us, who at one time or another threatened to leave our country (USA) if (fill in the blank), have ever left for good, tells you all you need to know about why ours, probably appropriately #11 on the "Best Country in the World" ...list, is the best place to live. wat | ||
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Empyrean
16987 Posts
On August 19 2010 04:58 hifriend wrote: Sorry I was referring to the comments below the survey results and twitter. Not here on tl though. Keep in mind, most Americans on the internet are like those ones you find in the Fox News comments section. Also this: (stolen from Kennigit hahaha) Welcome to America. It gets worse the farther south you go. | ||
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MetalMarine
United States1559 Posts
On August 19 2010 04:15 emperorchampion wrote: To: Spain From: Netherlands Haha, what now? Imo, Canada would be at least #6 without Justin Bieber Spain: uhm...... We beat you in the WC. What does this list have to do with anything related to that? | ||
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
On August 19 2010 04:59 Empyrean wrote: Keep in mind, most Americans on the internet are like those ones you find in the Fox News comments section. Also this: + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8 (stolen from Kennigit hahaha) Welcome to America. It gets worse the farther south you go. don't worry I find it just as amusing how some people from the top ranked nations seem to think of it as winning a competition. | ||
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WeSt
Portugal918 Posts
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Hesmyrr
Canada5776 Posts
On August 19 2010 04:40 Bill Murray wrote: I disagree with America being as low as it is. We still have the most influence of any country in the world. I think it means quality of life, not the judge of country's strength. | ||
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Empyrean
16987 Posts
On August 19 2010 05:04 WeSt wrote: Funny how crime / war / terrorist attacks aren't taken into consideration. I would prefer to live in a "worse country" (since this is the list for the 'best' country lol) and at least go to work knowing the bus / train isn't going to explode or some random dude starts shooting everyone at my son's school or even having wars going on for decades in my neighbour countries. Terrorism is pretty much a negligible threat in any country, unless you happen to live in Palestine or something. | ||
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WeSt
Portugal918 Posts
On August 19 2010 05:08 Empyrean wrote: Terrorism is pretty much a negligible threat in any country, unless you happen to live in Palestine or something. Yea you are probably right. But usually countries at war / with a high past war history have more enemies. Also forgot to mention separatist groups. Suicide rate also tells a lot about a country's social environment. | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32055 Posts
On August 19 2010 05:08 Empyrean wrote: Terrorism is pretty much a negligible threat in any country, unless you happen to live in Palestine or something. Isreal is on there o.O | ||
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
 Anyways, the metrics are dumb and the rankings are worthless, just like they usually are. It's not news, just something else to get people riled up and hopefully postpone Newsweek's death. | ||
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NonFactor
Sweden698 Posts
And yeah, using school shootings / terrorism in these type of rankings are quite useless, since they can happen pretty much anywhere. All you need is a crazy person with the neccessary resources. And sadly, these are in numbers much greater then they should be. And the results were to be expected. Nordic countries almost always dominate these type of studies, nothing new imo. | ||
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Clamev
Germany498 Posts
I think my country(Germany) is pretty reasonable although i realy wonder why USA is above us i mean our Health care system is not good but it´s better than in the US and while our education system has many flaws and is very biased i still think it does a better job. Also our economy is recovering better than any other countries does in eu and us. Anyway if they included surveys like asking people what they think how good the Health Care system, education system etc is than you will always get worse results in Germany, because people like to complain a lot here. | ||
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green.at
Austria1459 Posts
"I would probably rate countries like Austria and Belgium over the United States." thats where i started to wonder too  | ||
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Empyrean
16987 Posts
On August 19 2010 05:17 NonFactor wrote: And the results were to be expected. Nordic countries almost always dominate these type of studies, nothing new imo. Definitely. These surveys always come out with some combination of Scandanavian countries, Western European countries that aren't France/Spain/Portugal/Italy, Aus/NZ, Canada, Japan/SK, and the U.S. The rankings shuffle every year (kind of like college rankings, which are also bullshit and only change to sell more copies of U.S. News and World Report (which is a horrid publication compared to ones like the Economist...still better than Newsweek though!)), but they pretty much stay the same in terms of relative positions. | ||
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