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The USA is a single country with what's effectively two demographics, and one-and-a-half breeds of politician. "50 countries with different demographics geogra
by kick 7y ago
The USA is a single country with what's effectively two demographics, and one-and-a-half breeds of politician.
"50 countries with different demographics geography culture and needs!" is a complete fabrication. Wyoming doesn't even have a million people in it; implying Wyoming is a country is like implying a go-kart is a jet.
- bumby 7y agoI don’t think culture is population dependent. Baltimore and Wyoming have roughly the same population but very different cultural attitudes, beliefs, ways of life etc. Its hard to make a case they should have the same policies and expect the same results
- pmiller2 7y agoIt's not so much population per se as the urban/rural divide. Baltimore is a city (arguably a megalopolis of Baltimore + Washington DC + Northern Virginia and nearby areas of Maryland). Wyoming, OTOH, is the 10th largest state geographically, the least populous, and literally has more cows than people [0, 1]. If I had to guess, I would say there probably hasn't been a significant number of cows in Baltimore in over 200 years. --- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming [1]: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/3/11504568/states-most-cows https://www.vox.com/2016/5/3/11504568/states-most-cows
- bumby 7y agoI don’t necessarily disagree, my comment was largely based in response to the OP seeming to think population was major discriminator. Even at the city level, I think its is too broad of a generalization. Berkeley and Baltimore have roughly the same population density but very distinct cultures
- leetcrew 7y agowyoming has more than ten times the population of lichtenstein and more than one thousand times the land area.
- ceilingcorner 7y agoMalta has less than a million people. Is it not a country?
- pmiller2 7y agoWell, that depends on what you mean by "country," I suppose. If your definition is "independent, sovereign state," then, of course it is. But, so is the Vatican, with its population of ~800 and land area of 0.17 square miles. For perspective, San Francisco has a land area of ~47 square miles.
- chinesempire 7y agoThere aren't many definition of a Country. The Vatican is not in fact a country, but a city state (or a sovereign microstate) and it is an exception, not the norm. It is anyway an independent state with sovereignty, it signs treatise with other states (like the Lateran treaty that binds it to Italy) has its own official language (Latin) its own calling code (+379) its own ISO 3166 code (VA) and its own Internet TLD (.va) so it more or less works as any other independent country out there. And even though the actual resident population is very small, they have properties all over the World, they are in fact one of the most powerful countries in the World serving over 1.2 billions catholics (it's even 18th in the World for GDP per capita, even though the Vatican wealth is not really expressed by the GDP). If you look at it that way, Vatican State is more of a country than Kansas will ever be.
- asjw 7y agoLuxembourg has a population of 600 thousands people Lichtenstein has 38 thousands citizens There are 164 countries in the World with less than one million citizens and 159 with one million or more https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populat...