On 15-10-2011 17:13, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 15/10/2011 01:39 PM, Warp wrote:
>> I get the strong
>> impression that many Americans seem to live in some kind of social bubble
>> where they subconsciously think that they are the only people in the
>> world
>> (or at least the only people with a modern western culture and society).
>> In other words, they have an extremely US-centric view of the world.
>
> In fairness, the USA is larger than all of Europe put together. If you
> imagine each US state as being like an EU country, there's no /that/
> much difference. How many Europeans are really aware of anything
> happening outside Europe (and the USA)? Let's face it, there's Africa,
> Asia, Australia, *South* America, and those are just the places that I
> actually know the names of. Nobody talks about those much... and they're
> not exactly small or insignificant.

I have been in South America and in Africa this year, next year I will 
be in Asia and in general I am following as much as I can what happens 
there and pretty much everywhere. Both politically and with respect to 
health care. So what is your point?
Probably that I am a white raven.
I don't think so.


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Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per 
citizen per day.

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