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Zara is a high priced Spanish clothing store. Also I am sure Romania could win at highest number of Gypsies per capita. Now, whether you think that is good or bad depends on who you listen to.
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Phlegmish posted:Well we may have the most slaves, but at least we've got plenty of Zaras to make up for it. They make great tight pants. Making my rear end look intriguing and my bulge look way bigger than it actually is 
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Nov 13, 2014 19:32
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Riso posted:Zara is a high priced Spanish clothing store. According to the 2011 census, they're just 3.09% of the population http://historymaps.ro/wp-content/uploads/Harti_ftp/mai/etnice/Romania2011/2011comune.jpg. They used to be more, but thanks to EU ascension most of them are in France these days 
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Nov 13, 2014 19:39
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I'm pretty sure there are countries with worse average English proficiency than France. There was a survey from a few years back showing that Italians are worse at foreign languages than Frenchmen, and Spaniards are worse than Italians. Not to mention Easter European countries.
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Nov 13, 2014 19:57
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OF COURSE The Netherlands has the most cyclist deaths in traffic accidents. 95% of Dutch traffic is cyclists.
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Nov 13, 2014 19:59
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Tax haven central in Western Europe is the least educated? What?
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Nov 13, 2014 20:05
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Riso posted:Zara is a high priced Spanish clothing store. isn't it a pretty cheap store? Deltasquid posted:Tax haven central in Western Europe is the least educated? What? And Malta is hard to open a business? I thought it was also a tax haven with shitload of brassplate companies
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Nov 13, 2014 20:42
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Whatever shall France do to deal with the huge issue of proficiency in a foreign language 
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Nov 13, 2014 20:51
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That's right, we still have an intact housing culture where people rent instead of everybody wanting to own a house in the suburbs :germany:
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Nov 13, 2014 20:55
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Ofaloaf posted:The Czech Republic has slavery? Why do you think so many porn stars are Czech?
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Nov 13, 2014 21:01
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Antwan3K posted:And Malta is hard to open a business? I thought it was also a tax haven with shitload of brassplate companies
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Nov 13, 2014 21:02
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Wait I thought Luxembourg was one of those stupid rich microstates. Why is its education so low?
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Nov 13, 2014 21:33
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I am extremely racist against the Portuguese, so I blame them.
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Nov 13, 2014 21:34
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tractor fanatic posted:Wait I thought Luxembourg was one of those stupid rich microstates. Why is its education so low? And what does "lowest education" even mean? Like percentage of population with a college degree? Or are most of their schools built below sea level?
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Bloodnose posted:And what does "lowest education" even mean? Like percentage of population with a college degree? Or are most of their schools built below sea level? Can't be the second one, the Netherlands would win.
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For comparison for how bad these kinds of statistics are: Of all OECD member countries, Netherlands is always in something like 2nd of 3rd place for best paid teachers. Thing is, there's several pay scales for teachers. For some reason the OECD statistics folks only take the highest scale. MAYBE 5% of teachers here in the Netherlands are in that pay scale. The rest gets paid a whole lot less. Being a teacher is actually rather crappy here compared to a lot of other countries. But idiot government folks like to use that statistic to show there's no need to put any money in education/hiring good teachers in the Netherlands.
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Nov 13, 2014 22:08
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Slavery in agriculture is common in Croatia. As in, you read about a few cases a year in the papers. There was also a well known case in which an ultra football fan group called The Myrmidons kept slaves in a beach hut. No word on whether any of them was fair Briseis.
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Nov 13, 2014 22:14
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Koramei posted:Modern slavery is very much a thing in Europe, even the western parts. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's gone away. More than sex slavery too, there are people forced into stuff like being live-in servants and maids (although that's often entailing more than just cleaning...) too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania posted:In 1981, Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish slavery,[2] when a presidential decree abolished the practice. However, no criminal laws were passed to enforce the ban.[2][3][4] In 2007, "under international pressure", the government passed a law allowing slaveholders to be prosecuted.[2] Despite this, the number of slaves in the country has been estimated by the organization SOS Slavery to be up to 600,000 (or 20% of the population),[5][6] and by Global Slavery Index to be at least 140,000.[2] Sociologist Kevin Bales and Global Slavery Index estimate that Mauritania has the highest proportion of people in slavery of any country in the world.[7][8] While other countries in the region have people in "slavelike conditions", the situation in Mauritania is "unusually severe", according to African history professor Bruce Hall.[2] What the gently caress Mauritania 
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Antwan3K posted:And Malta is hard to open a business? I thought it was also a tax haven with shitload of brassplate companies If they're taking "buying a physical property" into account I can see why it would be rated low.
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HorseRenoir posted:What the gently caress Mauritania Yeah that was the mindfuckiest part of my West Africa social study class. My Senegalese professor told us... stuff.  Worse still, the gov acts like the legal ban magically and automatically ended the practice.
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Koramei posted:Modern slavery is very much a thing in Europe, even the western parts. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's gone away. More than sex slavery too, there are people forced into stuff like being live-in servants and maids (although that's often entailing more than just cleaning...) too. Shouldn't North Korea be like 90+%?
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JosefStalinator posted:Shouldn't North Korea be like 90+%? North Korea is unlisted, which basically means "yes".
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Peanut President posted:North Korea is unlisted, which basically means "yes". "Yes" as an answer of percentage data is one of those oddities that only works for a case such as North Korea. Best Korea. I like how a lot of these maps leaves out Taiwan due to the political ambiguity of the island. It has its own sovereign government that manages accurate and contemporary population data and it's incredibly easy to collect information. I wonder if Wikipedia leaves the data for Taiwan out of their maps specifically so they don't get banned in the mainland.
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Nov 14, 2014 11:00
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Also, the maps are made by users so any user can just go in an add information on Taiwan to the map.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Talk about a first world problem. Apparently our lack of a certain kind of clothing store is the worst thing about Denmark. Especially if you consider that the entire SPS conglomerate of clothing chains is Danish, there's cities in the Netherlands that offer nothing but chainstores that are related to SPS. Riso posted:Zara is a high priced Spanish clothing store. Zara is not expensive, but they do rotate their collection really fast. Their sizing is also not at all compatible with Scandinavian/Dutch Tallness. I also think it's a suspect store with regards to their cheapness/apparent wastefulness. Where do their clothes come from? DONT TOUCH THE PC fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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ecureuilmatrix posted:Yeah that was the mindfuckiest part of my West Africa social study class. My Senegalese professor told us... stuff. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/08/freedom-fighter It's a pretty good read.
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IndustrialApe posted:Especially if you consider that the entire SPS conglomerate of clothing chains is Danish, there's cities in the Netherlands that offer nothing but chainstores that are related to SPS. I used to work in a office and zara had an office on the same floor across the road. It was just an entire floor full of discarded clothes. I also don't really understand their business.
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IndustrialApe posted:Zara is not expensive, but they do rotate their collection really fast. Their sizing is also not at all compatible with Scandinavian/Dutch Tallness. I just took a look at 3 pairs of my zara pants, 2 of them (the nicer ones) are made in Morocco, the third in Turkey.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I used to work in a office and zara had an office on the same floor across the road. It was just an entire floor full of discarded clothes. And as far as I know Spaniards don't have jobs, so how are they staffing the 400+ Zaras in Spain? Something fishy going on for sure.
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Phlegmish posted:And as far as I know Spaniards don't have jobs, so how are they staffing the 400+ Zaras in Spain? Something fishy going on for sure. They bring in Portuguese people and Moroccans for that.
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JosefStalinator posted:Shouldn't North Korea be like 90+%? The map is for literal slaves, I'm pretty sure. If you include North Korea's prison camp population, although it's obviously far worse there, it opens a (not completely unfair) precedent to include stuff like the US prisons too, which is a not dissimilar percentage of our population. And then plenty of North Koreans live in slave-like conditions, but again, that would completely change how the rest of the map looks too. and even then it's only a (fairly large relative to the rest of the world but still small) fraction of the population. people aren't living well but they're still living as people
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Koramei posted:Modern slavery is very much a thing in Europe, even the western parts. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's gone away. More than sex slavery too, there are people forced into stuff like being live-in servants and maids (although that's often entailing more than just cleaning...) too. What's up with Moldova in this map???
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Koramei posted:Modern slavery is very much a thing in Europe, even the western parts. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's gone away. More than sex slavery too, there are people forced into stuff like being live-in servants and maids (although that's often entailing more than just cleaning...) too. Are there really that many literal slaves in India and Pakistan? I never suspected the percentage to be that high. Also a bit surprised by China and Russia.
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For the slave map, Moldova really stands out, and Bangladesh for being apparently lacking slaves despite being surrounded by areas with more.
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Count Roland posted:For the slave map, Moldova really stands out, and Bangladesh for being apparently lacking slaves despite being surrounded by areas with more. All the slaves in Bangladesh were killed by building collapses.
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Kurtofan posted:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/08/freedom-fighter  This guy has balls so huge they liberate slaves by their sheer gravity.pro-click, thanks.
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mcustic posted:Slavery in agriculture is common in Croatia. As in, you read about a few cases a year in the papers. There was also a well known case in which an ultra football fan group called The Myrmidons kept slaves in a beach hut. No word on whether any of them was fair Briseis.  Were the leaders of this group even in a homosexual relationship?
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Broken Cog posted:Are there really that many literal slaves in India and Pakistan? I never suspected the percentage to be that high. Also a bit surprised by China and Russia. It depends on what you mean by "literal slave", these sort of things usually mean unfree labor which is effectively the same thing but doesn't have the flashy imagery of 1850s Georgia. For example, in the US tomato industry, it's common for a human trafficker to promise transport to the US and a job upon arrival which the immigrant will work on until the debt is paid off. The job is low income treated as a contract labor job that pays by productivity and winds up working out to $1.50-4.00 an hour. The job does provide housing and food but that comes at a price, garnished from their paychecks, additionally the laborers pay more money garnished out of their income to pay for security guards who "monitor and protect them" at all hours, and more is garnished to pay for their debt. Sometimes they can start to pay off their debts but a lot of times it just gets worse. If they do manage to go to the police, in many states it's likely they will be arrested and sent back to their country of citizenship. The US is really good about modern slavery, and this stuff exists here. When you see the picture of Ronald Reagan eating grapes, this is the practice he was endorsing to keep being a thing in California's grape industry.  That said, it will also depend on how they report their data, there are a LOT of people operating under this sort of system that are from India and Pakistan but who live and work in Dubai under even worse conditions than the US tomato industry. If that is reported as citizens of India and Pakistan instead of temporary residents of UAE, that'd help explain it. There's also a huge thing of black market coal mining in India that operates with unfree labor.
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Broken Cog posted:Are there really that many literal slaves in India and Pakistan? I never suspected the percentage to be that high. Also a bit surprised by China and Russia.
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