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You're better of going to Australia, harder to attack and once you get it yoy get an extra 2 units per turn. They who rule Australia rules the world
What does that mean?
Using standards such as public services, healthcare, education, etc. What other metrics should be used?
I mean that depends on what you consider good "living standards" to be.
Greater life expectancy means we have to work harder, to be able to afford to live longer. Healthcare means that we live longer, but with greater infirmity in older age. For example.
Take our oil away and just how high a standard do you think you will be living at then? Why do you think that Govts were so scared of "Swine Flu"?
Does literacy help you catch more fish, care for farm animals etc?
Life is so very different across the two continents that you really cannot say that our standards are "better", just that our values are different as a consequence of the lifestyles we lead.
I would agree that quality of life is subjective. But most of the world seeks Western living standards, since there is at least a relationship (but not a total one) between living standards and quality of life.
No, material wealth is calculated on that basis.
A lonely millionaire with a big house and all the gizmos he could ask for is still lonely.
Why do you think that some people crave the western approach?
A lot of people see the Western approach as immoral.
Frankly I bet most African's would be willing to work harder for longer life expectancy (and to be honest our life in the office isn't hard if you compare it to working in a sweat shop or trying to eke out a subsistence living with farming implements we gave up with in the nineteenth century).
Now I'd accept your argument that we're only one step away from barbarism, but its not relevant
And ask any farmer whether literacy helps you care for farm animals. Coming from a farming background my grandpa would always call on vets educated to a post-graduate level, rather than an illterate. Animal husbandry is much better in the West.
I can quiet easily say our standard of life is much better. I suspect few Africans would disagree
Well, quality of life is relative.
Reaching Western living standards one of the aims of China and India. I think the "some" in that sense is literally hundreds of millions of people.
In terms of social freedoms, perhaps. But not in terms of living standards/economics.
People's attitudes to money, and possessions are often seen as immoral by various other cultures.
I disagree, at least partly. It's not only western countries that are wealthy. Japan culturally is not Western, but is a first world country. The same with South Korea. I think the main reason is because (according to other cultures) we're too sexually liberal, give gays rights, etc. People from more conservative cultures dislike this.
I don't think many cultures hold an issue with wealth per se. Since most cultures in the world are poor, then growing their economies and increasing the economic pie (so to speak) is the only way to improve their living standards.
Why don't you say that you are not well with black people.Africa is a nice country with lots of animals.I think the government is not good.
:yes: There have been numerous studies done by the New Economics Foundation and the Happy Planet Index which show how material wealth and wellbeing actually have an INVERSE relationship once you pass the poverty line. Once basic needs are catered for, the richer the country then the more social inequality there is, the more widespread crime is, and the more time is spent doing things that do not fulfil people.
Once basic needs are met, money doesn't have as much of a bearing on well-being as people want to think.
Quality of life is relative. Everything in life is relative.
Sorry for that.
AFRICA ISN'T A COUNTRY.
:rolleyes:
Sorry about this chaps and chappesses, but I think one of my children has started an accout.
Oh wait, they've worked out Africa isn't a country... Thank God for infant school education
Yes it is a country where there are many people there.It has been formed by the eruption of volcano and people has started to live there.Recently the Fifa 2010 has been held there and many people were present.The weather is good there and the animals also.:hyper:
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Don't be alarmed.
Is it just me or do there seem to be more trolls about than usual at the moment? I'm getting a bit gribbly about all this; all the good'uns are leaving and we have this irritating rubbish on the invasion.
Mods seem to be doing fuck all about it.
Education isn't what it used to be.
I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt because English doesn't seem to be your first language.
Africa = whole continent, many countries
South Africa = country that hosted World Cup
We could start a bring back JimV campaign