Re:The world is not falling apart: The trend lines
by rroblak on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @01:04AM
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Actually, it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England
Re:The world is not falling apart: The trend lines
by 0x5f3759df-i on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @01:06AM
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Re:The world is not falling apart: The trend lines
by tempodox on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @06:37AM
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“Wrong” is wrong. The linked article cites England as a country in the UK.
Re:The world is not falling apart: The trend lines
by ctdonath on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @10:42AM
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"America" isn't, strictly speaking, "The United States of America" - but when people use the term, we all know of which is spoken. Likewise "England".
Can't resist...
Guildenstern: I don't believe in it anyway.
Rosencrantz: What?
Guildenstern: England.
Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
Re:The world is not falling apart: The trend lines
by tome on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @04:34AM
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Not sure why you were downvoted. England certainly isn't a country in the sense that's important in the article, i.e. a self-governing entity with control over its own economic system.
Re:The world is not falling apart: The trend lines
by rorygreig on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @07:20AM
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Why is the fact that it's not self-governing relevant to the article? If the violence statistics cited apply to the (country/nation/administrative region/chunk of land) that is England, then surely that's all that matters.
England isn't a country. Constantly referring to it as one, was a distraction from the contents for me.