• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Americans have got to be the dumbest bunch out there.

    Of the countries that score above a 0.9 on the human development index, the US is definitely among the stupidest, if not the stupidest. But, that’s kind of misleading. The US shouldn’t be compared to places like Switzerland or Norway, nations that have populations of less than 10 million. The US is more comparable to the EU as a whole. We should be seen as a union of nations rather than a single nation, and like the EU we have some states that are much more developed than others.

    So, we’re not one “bunch” of people, anymore than Europe is one “bunch” of people.

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      The EU is nothing like the US. The EU is made of individual, sovereign nations with each their own language and culture and political system and laws and regulations. Most of these countries have very little in common except the fact that they happen to be on the same continent. The only thing that keeps them from being at war with each other is trade. And that’s where the EU comes in.

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        The EU is made of individual, sovereign nations with each their own language and culture and political system and laws and regulations.

        So are US States. The language is generally going to be the same, but culture, politics, laws and regulations all vary dramatically between US States. Most laws that people deal with in their daily lives are State laws, not Federal.

        Most of these countries have very little in common except the fact that they happen to be on the same continent.

        You could say the same about a lot of US States. Texas and California are dramatically different and likely wouldn’t be in the same grouping if things were being built today.

        The only thing that keeps them from being at war with each other is trade. And that’s where the EU comes in.

        Have you seen the divide between the various US States? Texas 100% would go to war with California if given the chance.