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>>52170 That map is out-dated, last time I checked Russia was at 2% ie. green.
>You said that education was the single most important factor in development, more than poverty, hunger, gdp per capita, democracy, etc.
Poverty and hunger are reduced by wealth, and wealth is generated by an educated population creating and maintaining a healthy economy. Russia will have a GDP PPP per capita nearing lesser wealthy western countries like Portugal within 5 years. Places like Brazil, Turkey, Mexico etc.. will continue to lag behind.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_future_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita_estimates
>I'm showing you the stupidity of your statement, because if we applied your criteria, Russia would be a better place to live in than Japan, Portugal, Switzerland, or many other countries that don't rank as well on the "education index".
Give it 50 years. Like I said, Russia and Eastern Europe are still playing catchup. And besides, there's hardly a difference between Russia and Japan on the education index.
>It's fallacious to use only one component of the HDI and not all. Russia is a fucking third world country, and the only reason people make up excuses for them is because they are white.
I used that one map to demonstrate my point that there's a difference between third world and former eastern-bloc countries. At no point did I say that a country is automatically better if it has a better education system. It's what that education system leads to in the long run, something that the former Eastern-bloc countries haven't had much to work with.
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