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This is not only your impression. Look for example at this Wikpedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ...

"I want to tell them how awesome it is that they are doing it, but am never sure if that's the right thing to do some stranger lol."

General heuristic: If you are not sure, if it is right to approach a stranger, just do it. Really. Talk to them next time.

And don't end your sentences with "lol", please.

Titanic casualty figures: http://www.anesi.com/titanic.htm

I've seen a simple implementation, with a splitscreen and a table of content based on the slides here:

http://videolectures.net/epsrcws08_campbell_isvm/

The ability to see the slides on the split screen and jump to previous slides via the table of contents really helped me as a user much.