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Re:Hans Rosling: Do you know more about the world than a chi... by rs232 on Thursday November 07, 2013 @10:26AM (#6689786)
If Rosling read this he would chide you for using the term "Western World" just like that, with at best an assumed definition. It is one of his pet peeves to stress that the world is no longer divided into the Developing world and The West.
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Re:Hans Rosling: Do you know more about the world than a chi... by sp332 on Thursday November 07, 2013 @10:33AM (#6689860)
He mentioned that the huge economic gulf has turned into a gentle slope, but there's certainly still a cultural definition of "the west".
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Re:Hans Rosling: Do you know more about the world than a chi... by benjamincburns on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:55PM (#6690993)
Yes, I was absolutely referring to the cultural West (which I'd guess is the population in which he and the rest of the GapMinder project will continue to find this bias) rather than the socioeconomic West.
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