Full Version: Backwards Country/Culture
What makes a Country Backwards? (see thread in off topic for backgrounder).
LMAO @ most of those.
damn... I wish I could pick more than one!
(I'm especially fond of the "minister of genocide" one)
damn... I wish I could pick more than one!
(I'm especially fond of the "minister of genocide" one)
what's makes a country backwards!?!?!
that's easy: spelling!!! YRTNUOC .... viola!
QUOTE(gimygirl @ Jun 27 2006, 10:55 PM) 
what's makes a country backwards!?!?!
that's easy: spelling!!! YRTNUOC .... viola!
LOL.... I like the Michael Jackson one too.....
As I am the one who caused all this trouble, I have of course voted.
For backwardness, I would have to say the most obvious display of a society still living in the dark ages is #1......
For backwardness, I would have to say the most obvious display of a society still living in the dark ages is #1......
I didn't vote cos there was no choice for 'so different from mine that I don't understand it' which is, IMO, the reason most people see a country as backwards. Doesn't matter WHERE you are from - your opinion will differ as to the depth of your experience/understanding of the country you are commenting on.
I've travelled extensively and experienced firsthand many cultures very different from my own; it was broadening experience - I think world travel ought to be complusory for all young people; I'm sure we'd have better relations with each other, globally, if it was
I've travelled extensively and experienced firsthand many cultures very different from my own; it was broadening experience - I think world travel ought to be complusory for all young people; I'm sure we'd have better relations with each other, globally, if it was
Metric! 
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jun 28 2006, 12:04 AM)
What makes a Country Backwards? (see thread in off topic for backgrounder).
Do you mean this thread http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=19296?
Artegal,
It's not one's own.
Yodrak
It's not one's own.
Yodrak
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jun 28 2006, 12:34 AM)
What makes a Country Backwards? ....
The US makes you apply for a visitor's visa before arrival.
Branch of Government includes Minister of Genocide
How about healthcare systems which don't provide a guarantee of adequate care, no matter how much you pay in premiums, where illiterate community college graduates are the ones making medical decisions on your behalf, even against the advice of medical professionals?
lack of the right of health care is a basic human right and necessity...even maslow said..one must have health..food and shelter before one can start achieving any hope of self actualization
QUOTE(almaty2004 @ Jun 29 2006, 08:34 PM)
lack of the right of health care is a basic human right and necessity...even maslow said..one must have health..food and shelter before one can start achieving any hope of self actualization
A business has to be profitable, but as regards healthcare, once that goal (making profit) comes before patient care, we've got a serious problem.
QUOTE(Fishdude @ Jun 29 2006, 10:11 PM)
QUOTE(almaty2004 @ Jun 29 2006, 08:34 PM)
lack of the right of health care is a basic human right and necessity...even maslow said..one must have health..food and shelter before one can start achieving any hope of self actualization
A business has to be profitable, but as regards healthcare, once that goal (making profit) comes before patient care, we've got a serious problem.
work at a hospital for 7 years...and it came to that in the mid 90s..
QUOTE(almaty2004 @ Jun 29 2006, 08:34 PM)
lack of the right of health care is a basic human right and necessity...even maslow said..one must have health..food and shelter before one can start achieving any hope of self actualization
dont forget those esteem needs..... lol
the method in which they take a crap... of course?!
QUOTE(Fishdude @ Jun 29 2006, 07:36 PM)
How about healthcare systems which don't provide a guarantee of adequate care, no matter how much you pay in premiums, where illiterate community college graduates are the ones making medical decisions on your behalf, even against the advice of medical professionals?
Fishster, lets not pick on community college graduates--and as you well know its more likely that a Harvard or Standford MBA at the top is making loss/profit decision to meet shareholder expectations that makes policy that then the underlings, even well meaning and literate community college graduates must follow. Many so-called illiterate community college types are more likely to be sympathetic to the plight of those in need--yet powerless to make any change against the powers that be.
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jul 8 2006, 09:31 PM)
QUOTE(Fishdude @ Jun 29 2006, 07:36 PM)
How about healthcare systems which don't provide a guarantee of adequate care, no matter how much you pay in premiums, where illiterate community college graduates are the ones making medical decisions on your behalf, even against the advice of medical professionals?
Fishster, lets not pick on community college graduates--and as you well know its more likely that a Harvard or Standford MBA at the top is making loss/profit decision to meet shareholder expectations that makes policy that then the underlings, even well meaning and literate community college graduates must follow. Many so-called illiterate community college types are more likely to be sympathetic to the plight of those in need--yet powerless to make any change against the powers that be.
So they perpetuate the system. I guess anything is justified so long as it pays the bills. Clearly its not just whores who do it for the money....
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loss/profit decision to meet shareholder expectations
- what its all about. Just that philosophically its totally at odds with providing patient care.
QUOTE(Fishdude @ Jul 8 2006, 11:03 PM)
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jul 8 2006, 09:31 PM)
QUOTE(Fishdude @ Jun 29 2006, 07:36 PM)
How about healthcare systems which don't provide a guarantee of adequate care, no matter how much you pay in premiums, where illiterate community college graduates are the ones making medical decisions on your behalf, even against the advice of medical professionals?
Fishster, lets not pick on community college graduates--and as you well know its more likely that a Harvard or Standford MBA at the top is making loss/profit decision to meet shareholder expectations that makes policy that then the underlings, even well meaning and literate community college graduates must follow.
So they perpetuate the system. I guess anything is justified so long as it pays the bills. Clearly its not just whores who do it for the money....
Not everyone is lucky/skilled enough to be a pimp. The rest of us are doomed to being someones whore.
Your cheapshot at community college grads is uncalled for, FD. Blame the pimps, not the whores, bro. The pimps are all MBAs and JDs.
QUOTE(Gupt @ Jul 8 2006, 11:21 PM)
QUOTE(Fishdude @ Jul 8 2006, 11:03 PM)
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jul 8 2006, 09:31 PM)
QUOTE(Fishdude @ Jun 29 2006, 07:36 PM)
How about healthcare systems which don't provide a guarantee of adequate care, no matter how much you pay in premiums, where illiterate community college graduates are the ones making medical decisions on your behalf, even against the advice of medical professionals?
Fishster, lets not pick on community college graduates--and as you well know its more likely that a Harvard or Standford MBA at the top is making loss/profit decision to meet shareholder expectations that makes policy that then the underlings, even well meaning and literate community college graduates must follow.
So they perpetuate the system. I guess anything is justified so long as it pays the bills. Clearly its not just whores who do it for the money....
Not everyone is lucky/skilled enough to be a pimp. The rest of us are doomed to being someones whore.
Your cheapshot at community college grads is uncalled for, FD. Blame the pimps, not the whores, bro. The pimps are all MBAs and JDs.
"Doomed to being someone's whore?" That's not the usual 'better yourself / personal responsibility' philosophy? As I see it, the argument amounts to "sorry I'm just following orders". I wonder... if someone says "I'm not skilled/confident enough to get a better job" does that mean that they should have no code of ethical principles built into their work ethic? It's a slippery slope, as I see it.
I blame everyone involved. Speaking personally, if I pay a bunch of money for insurance coverage and I can't get the treatment I need, because some half-witted jobsworth is either blocking it, or trying to sell me (sorry, force on me) inferior treatment that conflicts with the doctor's advice, I'm not exactly going to feel like particularly sympathetic towards them.
Two things that have been discussed recently, breast ironing and grown men marrying 12 year-olds.
QUOTE(nessaandcharles @ Jun 28 2006, 10:22 AM)
QUOTE(Artegal @ Jun 28 2006, 12:04 AM)
What makes a Country Backwards? (see thread in off topic for backgrounder).
Do you mean this thread http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=19296?
I thought it was because of this
all of the above lol
None of the above. It's just arrogance on the part of the more fortunate.
QUOTE(Richard and Li @ Apr 23 2008, 09:45 PM)
None of the above. It's just arrogance on the part of the more fortunate.
Wow really?
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Women and Children are property
Government is controlled by religious leaders
Branch of Government includes Minister of Genocide
Legislature makes less laws than Sanctions against your country Passed by the UN
Amnesty International Pre-Prints Your Country in its Top 10 Worst
Country leader is a Colonel, Captain or a General--and dresses like Michael Jackson
Penalty of Death in your Country for Swearing against God, Drug Smuggling or Being a Female Fetus.
Government is controlled by religious leaders
Branch of Government includes Minister of Genocide
Legislature makes less laws than Sanctions against your country Passed by the UN
Amnesty International Pre-Prints Your Country in its Top 10 Worst
Country leader is a Colonel, Captain or a General--and dresses like Michael Jackson
Penalty of Death in your Country for Swearing against God, Drug Smuggling or Being a Female Fetus.
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