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  • File : 1304115321.jpg-(281 KB, 1020x748, farmer-with-straw-hat.jpg)
    281 KB Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:15 No.3494297  
    Why does the United States of America seem like a developing country in some ways?

    I'm not sure how to properly describe it, but obviously it has rampant inequality, with rich white people living in gated communities and suburbs located far from poor, often not white people. A lot of the country is desert, and there are natural disasters all the time, some bad enough to wipe out cities. There are rural towns all over that lack basic services. Murders are everyday life and people carry guns because they can't trust on the police. The government is incredibly corrupt and inefficient, spending tons of money on the military. A lot of people are poor and everyone has tons of debt. USA just doesn't FEEL right, it doesn't match how it's normally described.

    I don't ask this because I want to troll americans, I'm sure /int/ is capable of that without my help.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:16 No.3494302
    dont worry OP

    they lie will soon stop
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:19 No.3494324
    The US is very similar to Russia. It has very rich states and very poor states.

    Moscow has a per capita GDP of >$50000, and there are Russian states with less than 5000. The US has states with >$50000 and states (that look like developing country) with ~25000-30000.

    Such is life in a federation.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:19 No.3494329
    It's a thirdworld shithole. I hate living here. Americans think it's a good place because they have a big tv and the internet. It's really sad sometimes.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:21 No.3494339
    Cause It's a third world country.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:29 No.3494389
    That farmer looks really fucking cool.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:32 No.3494403
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    >>3494297

    You really want to know the answer, OP? It's because we're HUGE.

    Europeans are used to their governments being everywhere all the time because they are tiny comparatively-speaking. Furthermore, Europe has had literally thousands of years to develop, while America has been carved out of the wilderness in the past 300 years.

    >A lot of the country is desert

    Not even close. The East Coast is mostly forest, then you hit the Appalachian Mountains. Then it's mostly grassland and plains until you hit the Rockies. Then you're back to diverse terrain on the West Coast.

    >Carry guns because we don't trust police.

    False. Lawful citizens carry guns not because we don't trust police, but because we don't trust police to be nearby when we're assaulted by a criminal. It's called "personal responsibility". Try it some time.

    >Corrupt and inefficient

    See: the entire structure of the EU
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:32 No.3494407
    >>3494389
    Back then everyone looked like that son.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:39 No.3494436
    Thats what you get for basing your entire view of a country on what you hear on /int/
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:41 No.3494447
    The American elite is intentionally ruining the American people for their own profit. They want the common American people to be scared, uneducated, unhealthy, stressed and similar because that makes them so much easier to control.

    There are many intentional ways of ruining the American people, like the terrible public education (elementary/high schools) with the goal to make the common Americans unable to realise their political and social situation which makes them naive.

    Then Americans trust government sources like CNN and BBC. Meanwhile, the elite remains educated in their overpriced schools.

    And the political system is even worse, there is basically one way, the Democrats and Republicans have little real differences and are more like an illusion of a dynamic political system. Democrats are right-wing, Republicans are far-right, almost fascist.

    Then there's the health care, the elite has itself secured while the commoners suffer the most expensive healthcare in the world, yet one among the worst among developed countries.

    The elite also makes sure to enforce a belief that state health care would be un-American and communist, and we all know communists eat babies, right?

    Meanwhile, American medical alliances, completely private organisations who are the ones in control of medical licenses make sure that there is a low number of doctors in order to make their salaries ridiculously high.

    inb4 conspiracy, ever since first civilisations were formed the top 10% manipulated and opressed the lower 90%.

    tl;dr USA is becoming a feudal state
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)18:41 No.3494451
    You could say that it IS a developing country.

    Some parts are just better developed than the others. USA wears that part as a mask and pretends that the less-developed areas don't exist.

    They can't keep it up forever, though.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:38 No.3494785
    >>3494297
    Its called capatilism
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:42 No.3494804
    The South really drags down all of our statistics. Come to the Northeast or California OP, everything is way better than you described.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:43 No.3494812
    Inequality has been going up, natural disasters keep getting crazier, gun-toting crazies breed more gun-toting crazies and the government has slowly turned from a model of democracy to corporate stooge. America's not a developing country, it's an regressing country.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:44 No.3494821
    >>3494804

    >Northeast or California
    >Go to NY
    >Dominicans and Puerto Ricans everywhere
    >Go to LA
    >Taco stands and shitty car shops
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:45 No.3494828
    >>3494821
    See this is the kind of ignorant, racist shit you encounter everywhere else. Just come to the NE or West Coast OP, you'll see the good parts of the USA.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:46 No.3494830
    The US beats out every european country in terms of personal wealth, HDI, and standard of living.

    The US is made to look bad by progressives who want to adopt european style economics.

    OP is just an example of how people are idiots, and are manipulated very easily.

    go to the suburbs of france and see what european paradise actually looks like
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:46 No.3494833
    Wow so many bitchy failure American in this thread, though this is 4chan, it's to be expected.

    Anyways OP America is a HUGE nation, it's diverse, it has fucking everything. Nothing wrong with desert that's just natural land like anything else. Natural disasters? Yeah so, that's a fact of life, and we handle them well for the most part. Lacking basic services? That's rare.

    Rampant inequality? It doesn't matter, who cares if the guy at the top has a lot of money when everyone else is doing well too for the most part. Everyone being poor doesn't sound any better, even though it is more equal.

    Governments are corrupt and horrible everywhere, European countries are going in debt and they don't even have a military to support.

    Nothing wrong with spending a lot on military, though these wars are dumb.

    America is what you make it OP, it isn't a place for failures.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:47 No.3494842
    >>3494828
    I hate you elitist fucks. just move out already. You're worse than europeans thinking they know about america.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:48 No.3494849
    >>3494842
    >some poorfag from ARE CUNTRY detected
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:48 No.3494851
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    >>3494804
    >The South really drags down all of our statistics.

    I wonder why...
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:50 No.3494858
    >>3494833
    This. its stupid to worry about the wealth gap. so what if some people are ridiculously wealthy if everyone else is doing okay themselves
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:50 No.3494860
    >>3494851
    Yes, a long history of keeping blacks from making anything of themselves has lead to underperformance. Good going South, really fucked yourselves up bad..
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:51 No.3494868
    >>3494851
    Rednecks?
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:51 No.3494872
    >>3494860
    >wahhh racism
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:51 No.3494873
    >>3494860
    You shut your whore fucking mouth.

    Black people in NJ aren't doing any better.

    And I lived their for fucking 11 years of my life until I moved to the south (because that's where all the jobs are moving now).
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:52 No.3494882
    >>3494873
    You lived their what? And whose what?

    And what kind of jobs?
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:53 No.3494889
    >>3494860
    >Good going South, really fucked yourselves up bad..

    The only bad thing they did was bringing black people here in the first place, and not sending them to Liberia after slavery ended.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:54 No.3494897
    >>3494889
    And slavery, and the black codes and Jim Crow laws. Can't forget those.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)19:55 No.3494901
    >>3494889
    Well they lost the goddamn war. They had no choice. They had to let the former slaves fill the state legislatures and go around raping their wives and daughters. Because they were losers and they had absolutely no choice.
    >> Anonymous 04/29/11(Fri)20:01 No.3494930
    >>3494830

    >Nope.jpg
    >> saturnblackhole !ISGODqaq9w 04/29/11(Fri)20:04 No.3494950
    It's like every big country with the wealth locked in coastal areas and poverty in the interior.



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