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I'm not so sure about the Canada parallel: Canada has GDP per capita closer to the US, Latvia is much lower (but still much higher than Latin America and China
by esrauch 6y ago
I'm not so sure about the Canada parallel: Canada has GDP per capita closer to the US, Latvia is much lower (but still much higher than Latin America and China so I'm not sure what other case would be similar).
- obventio56 6y agoI think they meant Latvians here are being portrayed as friendly or harmless like Canadians often are as well — not so much a reference to standard of living.
- Spooky23 6y agoSorry I was being a little tongue in cheek there! End of the day, Latvia is exotic but also harmless. It’s really weird to put in a press release that two contractors were hired and stress the Latvia angle. Me being the cynic I am about such matters assume that it’s a distraction from an actual story!