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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: KyrosL who wrote (17365)2/15/2004 10:20:27 PM
From: ConanRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
Well, these 'other industrialized countries' don't really provide comparable populations. Most of them are European and very, very homogeneous. If you only looked all the white people in the USA and then compared their life expectancies to Europeans (as well as the costs of their care) I suspect the numbers would look very similar.

But here in the USA we are absorbing millions of immigrants a year from Mexico and other far flung, poorer nations. We also have 12% of our population that is of mainly African descent that has had to cope with the vestiges of slavery and discrimination. So I think it is quite an accomplishment that our average life expectancy is almost at European levels. And even our population of European descent consists of people whose forefathers were convicts, criminals, and unwanted 'religious extremists' that basically got kicked out of Europe or sent over here. We are a nation of people that no one wanted and we do quite well for ourselves.
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