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I respect your work and I have no intention to challenge your authority.

That said, I fail to identify the guideline that lead to this decision. Perhaps someone can enlighten me?

I'm also willing to justify my claim, if it seemed gratuitous to any.

EDIT: I'm unable to justify any of my claims. I'm unhappy about living in Canada, and I can't help but feel jealous of american people when being exposed to HN or mainstream media. I was wrong for claiming that OP's friends would lie to him. I was wrong for claiming that Canada is a third world country. I'm sorry.

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Canada was allies with with the US after WWII. Therefore, they were 1st world. Your claim is wrong.

If you are referring to undeveloped vs developed countries, Canada is 9, while USA is 8 in the HDI. Still considered developed. You are still wrong.

In terms of every measure there's no way to qualify Canada as "third world". GDP per capita? Longevity? Quality of education?

Anyone who thinks otherwise would think Manhattan as no different than Calcutta because they're too angry to notice the differences.

I appreciate your responding thoughtfully, when it would be easier to double down (as many people do).

On HN we're trying for respectful, substantive discourse. We don't always get there, but it's clear that we can't have users putting down entire countries without things degenerating pretty quickly.

If you'd err on the side of editing out incivility from your future comments, we'd appreciate that too. It's something a lot of us have to work on (including me) and are learning together. I'd like to think the community is making slow progress in that direction.

Seeing as you split your time between the two countries in question, what's your current preference? From my Bay Area perspective, Canada often seems pretty appealing.

I like them both a lot. But what else could I say? Fortunately it's true.

Accusing people of lying is not being civil. There are many reasons why someone might disagree with you.

Just post some kind of source to quantify/ substantiate your claim. Its very inflammatory as posted.

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