I agree, but I also think this is cherry picked. There are countries that are quite monoethnical that are doing quite well eg. Switzerland and Japan. Also I don’t think USA is such a great place to live, even if it where the “worlds #1 superpower, whatever that means”. Great military doesn’t make a country nice to live in. Switzerland and France are much better in my opinion.
America is largely white. Also all the wealth and power comes from the white people. America peaked in the 60’s relative to the rest of the world.
European countries peaked in the late 90’s to the 00’s.
Poland’s great. Only ever heard good things about Lithuania. Don’t know squat about Moldova.
Argentina isn’t that white.
Crappy communism trumps anything else. Poland and Lithuania (and eastern Germany) under communism was shit, nearby countries (like Western Germany) were great. America really benefitted from WW2 and oil
There are as many or as few races as we decide to make up at any given time. There is no scientific basis for drawing an objective line between racial groups. And ‘mixed race’ people like me just fuck it up more and more as time goes on.
How is Poland a shithole? Did a person who wrote this crap have seen this country at all? We had literally one of the biggest economic growths in Europe during 90’s/00’s.
I am from a country that has tended to view poland in a less than flattering way. And yes, the past tense is intentional. I had the pleasure of spending a large part of 2008 in the Gdansk and Gdynia area, and I absolutely loved it. Beautiful place and friendly people.
I remember a coworker saying something along the lines of “I now understand why we have the stereotype about poor quality craftsmen coming over to us - because the best ones never left home” while we were walking through the town.
Black population is not that far off from Hispanic (18 vs 12%) and white is barely a majority.
Canada is much more dominantly white (70% vs 56%) with lower representation of every other group compared to US. Everywhere in Europe is much higher than that (80+%).
Of course all this is based on coarse Western racial categories, if you look at individual ethnicities then it’s gotta be India or somewhere in Africa.
Lul same with my fiancee actually. She’s half salvadoreña and half Lebanese. Her last name is a Lebanese one that isn’t common but she has strong salvadoreña features with Lebanese hair, it throws people for a loop trying to figure her out. I’m just Mexican with a Spaniards last name which a lot of people in Mexico also are.
Technically they didn’t say not a shithole, they just said that it was the world’s leading superpower. But yeah, I was mainly referring to the reply hehe
Lithuania is considered, along with Latvia and Estonia, to be a developed country now. It really took a step forward after being freed from the chains of Russian subjugation.
Out of listed countries, the only one that exhibits clear signs of ethnonationalism is Russia (although I have to admit to be fairly ignorant on state of things in Argentina)
Lumping Russia with its former colonies screams “ignorance”
Grabbing a bunch of countries from the oldest trade route and thinking they are gonna be ethnically homogenous echoes the previous scream
Me spending time on this post is a clear evidence of procrastination
Poland has universal healthcare, walkable cities, affordable intra- and intercity public transportation, and provides free higher education to its citizens
Moldova provides free education to its citizens and has universal healthcare
Even Russia has a still working universal healthcare (terrible by many standards, but still beats US) and provides higher education to its citizens
Argentina has universal healthcare and offers free higher education to it’s citizens
Idk, both of those studies leave a lot to be desired. The first methodology is based on language, which ignores the history of conflict and forms of imperialism that used language as a tool of imperial expansion.
The second study doesn’t count any culture that doesn’t make up more than 1% of the total population. Which means countries like Papua New Guinea, one of the most ethnic diverse countries in the world, doesn’t even register as they don’t have a dominant ethnic group.
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