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  • Here is a very interesting web site which has taken a comprehensive approach to comparing 193 countries around the world, on a very broad range of measures. http://www.vexen.co.uk/countries/best.html#Environment Their "ten best countries" are: #1 Sweden 1683 points x20 #2 Denmark 1598 points x20 #3 Netherlands 1572 points x20 #4 Finland 1514 points x20 #5 Germany 1422 points x21 #6 UK 1407 points x21 #7 Canada 1373 points x19 #8 Switzerland 1326 points x18 #9 Norway 1320 points x17 #10 Belgium 1208 points x19 My questions are ... 1) If homo sapiens originated in Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago... ...and then spread all over the world since then... ...why should nine out of ten of the "ten best countries" end up being located within a relatively small area of Europe? [The only exception to the general location is Canada, and the most populous regions of Canada have a climate similar to the other nine countries.] 2) Is the climate or other geographic factors somehow primarily responsible for this result? [. . . Is the northern half of the U.S. a "better country" than the southern half? ] 3) Are these ten countries *really* significantly better than the rest? 4) Is the fact that there are zero South American, African, or Asian countries in the top ten simply somehow due to social/cultural bias in the way this study was conceived and designed?

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    The ten best countries? The U.K. is not a country.

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Interesting web site? They're not very well informed. They seem to be suggesting that the U.K. is a country.

Tom R

Excellent book "Guns, Germs and Steel" explains geographic and ancient historical factors for Eurasia leading other continents. But Eurasia is large. Why Europe and not Iran/Iraq, Mediterranean Middle East, India or China/Japan areas? Well, during recorder history each of these regions had its chance to be a leader. Europe leads only since 15th century (= last 500 years).

Lenny

where your relatives are

Leonard

It has more to do with the wealth and income equality in these nations. all the countries you cite have a very rich population, which is well educated and able to demand, and get, a lot from it's government. So question one: irrelevant, you're looking too far back. 2) No, Sweden is number one, but has in many places a downright hostile environment. 3) Yes, there are people in other nations richer then Europeans, but they mostely live in nations with relatively poor inhabitants. It must be noted, however, that within the West the differences are less significant. 4) No, these nations are either just beginning to develop or are in a bad shape. Also: "Each set of data has a max points gain of 100, and a min of 0. My points algorithm is skewed by one factor: Countries who appear in more lists have an advantage. But I cannot divide the points by the number of entries, because then countries with one-off high ranks would have a big advantages. Luckily, the countries in the top 10 all have similar amounts of entries (Q). Many charts only present the top countries, or a selection, of the total data. On most data charts, I state the "Q" number, which is the number of data entries in my database for that item (even if I only list the top 10)" The scores will be different in reality, but it's not off by much it seems.

ArianaDM

wheres IRELAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

shane

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