. One is that we confine our presidential meetings to peers and we shouldn't treat them like a civilized country deserving that respect.
lol, they are a civilized country. A poor civilized country, but civilized nonetheless. They have close to 100% literary. They are poor, but they aren't exploited in the same way as the poor are in many countries. They don't have shanty towns. They probably have the best medical system in the world if we confine our comparison to countries with per capita incomes of under (to take a pretty arbitrary number) $10,000 (their per capita income was about $4,500 in 2007, according to the CIA World Factbook). And it compares well enough to advanced high income countries that we had a discussion about it on this thread a number of months ago.
Do they have problems and issues? Like, duh.... Who doesn't? We were just talking on this thread about the murder rate in Detroit. Some people considered the violence on our streets as a kind of low level civil war in our country. I question whether, e.g., Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Haiti, Serbia, and any number of other countries (I'm intentionally leaving out some of the larger and more advanced countries here) are any more "civilized" than Cuba is. |
