Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America

Re:Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America by D9u on Saturday July 13, 2013 @02:31PM (#6038253)

I found the article to be inconsistent.

    >Norwegians make more money.
    >despite being the richest country in the world, we come in a paltry 38th. (life expectancy)

So which is it? How can the USA be the richest country in the world if Norwegians make more money?

    >In a recent survey of young Americans, 63% could not find Iraq on a map (despite being at war with them)

Umm, we were never at war with Iraq. The perpetual proxy wars are being waged against an ideology called "Terror."

Then there are the references to CNN and Fox News. (vomit) Do Americans really get their news from these sources? Or is it only the TV-zombie masses?

That said, I do agree that we are too full of ourselves, and we do exhibit a fair bit of myopic tendencies as pertains to just where we actually stand in the overall global scheme.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, why is this crap on the front page of HN?

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Re:Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America by vmarsy on Saturday July 13, 2013 @02:50PM (#6038337)

> So which is it? How can the USA be the richest country in the world if Norwegians make more money?

Norwegians make $62,767 per year per capita on average.[1] Americans make $49,965 per year per capita on average.[1] So an average Norwegian makes $12,802 more every year.

You know that Norway is a pretty small country compared to the USA : 5 millions inhabitants vs 300 millions.

That is you should try simple maths :

5,000,000 * 62,757

300,000,000 * 49,965

I'm pretty sure the second result will be slightly bigger.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...

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