Rereading my own post some hours later I don't like the tone of it, so I'll willingly appologise for that. This might warrant a FUD-claim (I had to look up FUD to start with).

The point I was trying to make, which I don't at all think is based on fear, uncertainly and/or doubt, is that any two countries will differ on so many variables that one can almost freely pick what correlation one thinks is the important one. To do something akin to that and the go "shame on you" feels wrong.