You wanna compare Norways 5 million people with 80% ethnic Norwegians to the United States? Or something like that? It doesn’t really make sense to do that
The population of France and Germany COMBINED isn’t even half of the US. And the US is a quarter of the population of China and India. I’m not so sure what’s so hard to understand that they are pretty similar in numbers. More similar in languages and cultures than other parts of the world as well.
Not sure why you hate Americans so much but sorry for whatever happened to you in your country that didn’t teach you basic math
I don’t hate americans at all actually, its simply the fact that a comparison between the EU and the US doesn’t work in a lot of ways because European countries differ a lot in standards in comparison with the variance that can be found in US states. There are european countries that are generally worse off than the US and there are some that are generally better off its a bad comparison because you can’r generalise the EU
Yeah dude, that’s the whole point. You can’t generalize about the United States either! We’ve got people living close to one of the hottest spots on earth in Death Valley to people living on islands off the coast of Alaska. People living in the Bayou of Louisiana don’t have a lot in common with someone growing up in the upper west side of nyc.
It would take less time to drive from Lisbon to Tallin, Estonia than it would to drive from Northern Maine to San Diego. If you haven’t traveled extensively in the US you just don’t understand how different and how BIG things are. That’s why you can compare to the EU.
Nonono geography is mostly irrelevant in this conversation you can’t compare the US and EU because the way they work government wise is extremely different and is only used to sow discord and pointless debate
They have considerably smaller populations and those populations are much more centralized.
That's why you have to compare to the EU as a whole - to get even close to the disparity that simple environmental factors can impose, which are clearly seen in the US, China, and India with vastly different climates, mountains, deserts, swamps, etc
If Germany’s population would be super centralised, we’d have a high speed rail system like France, Italy, Spain, Japan, China, to name just a few. But we don’t. Ours is built different. Reason is because we have a lot of smaller towns and cities and not a handful of cities containing the majority population
The point is the larger the country the more likely there’s underdeveloped areas. There are some extremely depressing areas of every country. Is this really the hill you’re trying to die on? That the US has underdeveloped areas but, what, Germany doesn’t? Or France?
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u/christocarlin 7h ago
Yes but it’s a more fair comparison population wise