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Well.. Between the economy, the health sector, the infrastructure, the political developments, the education, the state of civil rights, the widespread religiou
by svrtknst 9y ago
Well.. Between the economy, the health sector, the infrastructure, the political developments, the education, the state of civil rights, the widespread religious influences at all levels of society and a culture of armed violence ...
Who's to say that the US, by and large, isn't a developing nation?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-developing-nation-regressing-economy-poverty-donald-trump-mit-economist-peter-temin-a7694726.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-develop...
- dang 9y agoPlease don't take a baity title as an excuse to pour fuel on national/political flames on HN. That's exactly what we don't want here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ben_w 9y agoI’m British. I’ve visited the USA a few times (CA, NY(C), MA, RI properly, a few more incidentally), and also Kenya. Many of my fellow British say similar things about the UK as you say about the USA, unfairly in both cases. Once you see a place that really is developing, it becomes clear how advanced our nations are. We complain about potholes, they complain the road fell off when it rained. We complain about civil rights, they have to deal with post-election violence. We complain about our schools, they only got free high schools a decade ago.