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A few comments opine upon the seeming unfairness of comparing the US to countries considered more “homogeneous”. OK, let’s compare the US to its similar North
by PeterWhittaker 4y ago
A few comments opine upon the seeming unfairness of comparing the US to countries considered more “homogeneous”.
OK, let’s compare the US to its similar North American neighbour, Canada, using the info in the article.
The US still lags by a considerable margin. Thems of us north of the border are somewhere between surprised and appalled at how little the US population and leadership seems to care about how much worse off Americans are than their peers in other countries.
Y’all have a lot more wealth, sure, but a lot more poverty, a lot more deathfrom treatable conditions, and a lot more incarcerated, for what it’s worth.
- TMWNN 4y ago>OK, let’s compare the US to its similar North American neighbour, Canada, using the info in the article. >The US still lags by a considerable margin. Canada's racial makeup is, more or less, white + Asian. Blacks—the group with the lowest life expectancy in the US—are almost nonexistent in Canada.
- PeterWhittaker 4y agoNon-existent? 4% of the population, according to StatsCan, compared with 12% in the US. Not sure that 4% is small enough to not matter, equally unsure that 12% is large enough to skew results as heavily as you would seem to suggest.