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To: marktwain

Australia ranks ahead of the United States in:

OECD Better Life Index

https://www.oecd.org/en/data/tools/oecd-better-life-index.html

Legatum Prosperity Index

https://index.prosperity.com/rankings

Freedom House Index

https://freedomhouse.org/country/australia
https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states

Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index

https://www.heritage.org/index/pages/country-pages/australia
https://www.heritage.org/index/pages/country-pages/united-states

However, none of these measures includes your important variable of how white is the population. Australia is becoming, like the U.S. and Canada, a country with a large Asian minority; and those Asians are as good or better than we Europeans in a lot of ways. They have intact families, raise their children well, obey the law, and they have strong work and save ethics.

Take a look at the 2024 U.S. Math team - the world champion math team.

https://maa.org/news/usa-first-at-imo/


31 posted on 07/12/2025 6:46:14 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

My ranking did not have anything to do with how “white” they are. It is about how bad the government has become.

It has become much more socialist, much more restrictive, much more concerned with some sort of “restorative justice”.

Electricity is becoming more of an expense than mortgages, for many people.

A couple of examples:

You cannot carry a pocket knife, except if you can tell a policeman what “legitimate purposes you are carrying it for”.

It is easier to obtain a permit to have a rifle (which takes some effort) than to have a slingshot.

I cannot be sure the immigration of non-European types was the crucial key to the vote-power change, but it was coincident with it.

The rankings cited, as with all such things, are very subjective.


38 posted on 07/12/2025 9:07:37 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Redmen4ever

“Take a look at the 2024 U.S. Math team - the world champion math team. https://maa.org/news/usa-first-at-imo/

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level (Wikipedia).

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship (Wikipedia).

My impression is that the MAA is the more political (e.g., DEI) of the two.


39 posted on 07/12/2025 12:45:28 PM PDT by powerset
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