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VanIslander
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Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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I guess I should stop teaching my students that there's 280,000,000 in America.  |
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ChopChaeJoe
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I thought i counted 300,000,000 before I left.
Seriously, how the heck can anyone how many people are in America? |
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ChuckECheese
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| I wonder if they're counting Americans like us who are strung out all over the world spreading our seeds or just in America. |
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JeJuJitsu
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: U.S population hits 300 million today |
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So? |
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Satori
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| There`s only 300 million if you count fundamentalist christians as human beings... |
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SPINOZA
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Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:37 am Post subject: |
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there's plenty of room for more really.
Mere population is without significance in the SPIN household. It tells us very little.
With a small population density of 84 people per square mile (compared to 976 in England, 1274 in South Korea, 850 in India), there's plenty of space for more and more Americans, which would be wonderful I'm sure. |
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laogaiguk
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Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
there's plenty of room for more really.
Mere population is without significance in the SPIN household. It tells us very little.
With a small population density of 84 people per square mile (compared to 976 in England, 1274 in South Korea, 850 in India), there's plenty of space for more and more Americans, which would be wonderful I'm sure. |
Tell me you are being sarcastic. The world needs to decrease it's population, if it wants everyone to live at a first world country's levels. Personally, I am all for forced sterilization of Catholics after 2 babies  |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:41 am Post subject: |
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Heck, I remember when the population was 180 million.
But I think people should keep things in perspective: Both India and China have a BILLION more people, give or take a couple.
I used to illustrate that with this comment to my high schoolers: Just imagine sharing your desk with 3 or 4 more people. Every desk, every table, every job, every everything. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Heck, I remember when the population was 180 million.
But I think people should keep things in perspective: Both India and China have a BILLION more people, give or take a couple. |
China has already implemented policy on this. India has by their own stupidity, killing off too many girls because they are stupid morons who don't like girls. Stupid morons. Anyways, they should implement the same policy as China, and something has to be done back home too. Most people who have too many kids (over 3, though even 3 is too many for the world) are either Catholic or poor, the poor ones definitely not being able to care for 6 or 7 children. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| laogaiguk wrote: |
| SPINOZA wrote: |
there's plenty of room for more really.
Mere population is without significance in the SPIN household. It tells us very little.
With a small population density of 84 people per square mile (compared to 976 in England, 1274 in South Korea, 850 in India), there's plenty of space for more and more Americans, which would be wonderful I'm sure. |
Tell me you are being sarcastic. The world needs to decrease it's population, if it wants everyone to live at a first world country's levels. Personally, I am all for forced sterilization of Catholics after 2 babies |
(see bold)
I didn't say it was desirable. I said it has a small population density and people need to be aware of that for the stat to be truly meaningful. I am suggesting that throwing numbers around is unworthy of consideration without looking at other facts too.
Comparatively, for a country of America's size, its population is very small. Good or bad, the hypothetical, what the world would be like if the US's population density was to become like South Korea's, normative states of any kind, aren't what I was discussing. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Having said that, whilst population density is of immense significance sometimes, mere population density alone (like mere population alone) is also without much significance. Monaco is the world's most densely populated country. Who cares, right? If the US were to take on The Vatican City's (smallest country/world?) population density (1700 approx) its population would be something like 6,675,000,000. But who cares? |
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