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- From: jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey)
- Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:03:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.220321.8579@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan22.151010.17928@acuson.com>
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- In article <1993Jan22.151010.17928@acuson.com> miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman ) writes:
- >
- > A lot of discussion on the net is of the nature of which
- > country is better or worse in some regard. These discussions
- > usually suffer from lack of data comparing different
- > countries. (Eg., the US murder rate is high, but how is it
- > compared to other countries?) I would like to mention three
- > recent books that compare the US and many other countries in
- > such things as infant mortality, murder rates, rate of growth
- > of exports, etc.
- >...
-
- One reason, IMHO, why Americans have the "USA #1" attitude is
- the relative amount of immigration to American vs. other
- countries. Most Americans are decendents of people who came
- here in the last 100 or 150 years. Most Americans know,
- work with, and have friends that were born in other countries
- and immigrated to America.
-
- The logic is thus, "since hundreds of thousands of people
- immigrate to America every year, and millions have immigrated
- here over the past century, this must be the best country
- in the world."
-
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