Scot Dutchy wrote:Rum wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:Rum wrote:However let us not forget that whatever NK accused America of in terms of propaganda it does to its own population tenfold.
Try again:
However let us not forget that whatever America accused NK of in terms of propaganda it does to its own population tenfold.
More like it.
Simply not the case. You can say what you like more or less in America. If you step out of line in NK your life is at risk. I find the automatic knee jerk 'everything American is terrible' approach lazy and often inaccurate.
You were talking about propaganda or as Americans call it "false news". NK is not the only country to use it. Trump has lied since he has been in power. He never tells the straight truth. Is that any different to NK?
Well tell me what is better in America than Europe? Look at OECD data.
O.k., let's look at the OECD data:
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/coun ... ed-states/
The United States performs very well in many measures of well-being relative to most other countries in the Better Life Index. The United States ranks at the top in housing, and income and wealth. They rank above the average in health status, jobs and earnings, education and skills, personal security, subjective well-being, environmental quality, and civic engagement. They rank below average in work-life balance and social connections...the average household net-adjusted disposable income per capita is USD 44 049 a year, much higher than the OECD average of USD 30 563 a year, and the highest figure in the OECD...
In terms of employment, 69% of people aged 15 to 64 in the United States have a paid job, above the OECD employment average of 67%. Some 75% of men are in paid work, compared with 64% of women. In the United States, some 11% of employees work very long hours, less than the OECD average of 13%, with almost 16% of men working very long hours compared with 7% of women.
Good education and skills are important requisites for finding a job. In the United States, 90% of adults aged 25-64 have completed upper secondary education, much higher than the OECD average of 74%. This is slightly truer of women than men, as 89% of men have successfully completed high-school compared with 91% of women. In terms of the quality of the educational system, the average student scored 488 in reading literacy, maths and science in the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), slightly higher than the OECD average of 486. On average in the United States, girls outperformed boys by 1 points, slightly less than the average OECD gap of 2 points.
In general, Americans are more satisfied with their lives than the OECD average. When asked to rate their general satisfaction with life on a scale from 0 to 10, people in the United States gave it a 6.9 grade on average, higher than the OECD average of 6.5.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
