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no order of importance

TOP 10 SIGNS/INDICATORS THAT A COUNTRY IS POOR

1) every guy studies the most serious major in college (business, accounting, technology, etc)
2) too much skimpy gal ads on billboards, tv, print, etc (nothing says hopelessness by rechanneling people's energy into a sexual one). Skimp is good. Too much skimp means your country is poor
3) people marry young, and/or have lots of children (again, a society without ladders for success leave people steeping themselves in the concept of family)
4) people booze up too much
5) Your country looks like Suwon or Gwangju
6) the poliitican leaders are all suave dudes just because they are powrful. 1 suave guy is common. If everyone is a playboy past his prime just because of his job - your country is poor
7) soccer is the most popular sport. soccer costs are almost nil, so it is easy for poor countries to live, eat and breath soccer
8. Your country doesn't have white people but it is dependent on the US corporate sphere (aka you owe the IMF a lot of money)
9) good looking people hold regular jobs. Good people shouldn't be driving buses or doing regular people jobs. Those jobs are for the unhandsome. But in poor countries, their is no social niche-partitioning so the handsome and beautiful fend like everyone else.
10. It's citizens think Westerners (esp Americans) are stupid. This transpires because, in rich countries, people follow their abilities and talents. so, since they don't spend their lives fighting to get onthe first rung of the ladder - they appear stupid to people in poor countries.
11. Everyone falls under the small business quadrant. Plain and simple, nothing saying you are going thru life playing "financial defense", as pooling money together to start any business imaginable (mnus the imagination).

if you find your country fits in 1 or 2 of these.. it doesn't mean your country is poor. There are always exceptions. But if you country fits into #1 and any other two, your country is poor.

[BS.Dos.]

Don't you have any classes to teach?

[RACETRAITOR]

[spyder]

[BS.Dos.]

I was only joking.

[Insidejohnmalkovich]

Indicators that a country is rich:

1) Everyone, including little children, has a cellphone.

2) Most families has two vehicles.

3) Every family has a couple computers and high speed internet.

4) Everyone can read and write.

5) People throw out almost as much food as they actually eat.

6) The country manufactures, invents and produces intellectual copyright: not just hews wood, drills oil or draws water.

7) Most families can afford private schools for their children for after public school hours. Or tutors. Or sending them abroad to study.

8 ) Everyone can receive decent medical care. And clean water.

9) Everyone can afford vacations in the near abroad.

10) Society is rich enough to support leeches: social activists, missionaries to other countries, professional agitators, fashion designers, et cetera.

[nicholas_chiasson]

-ways to know a country is poor.
1)You can not spell the name of the country
2)The people are famous for wearing funny hats
3)The language is very difficult and spoken by nobody outside the country
4)People live in pre-fab rebar 15 story concrete apartments with GAS
5)The people have embraced the cell phone because they don't have land lines
6)Drinking water and sewage share the same pipe
6a)Drinking water and sewage are actually the same
6b)Drinking water is more yellow than your urine
7)The hookers speak turkish BUT AREN"T TURKS!
8)Your country's main export is women
9)Western union has all the public transit ads in your country
10)You try to emigrate to Central America or South America.