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solaris152000
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They are not 'Western' Societies.
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T-hawk
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There's some no-true-Scotsman going on there. If one defines anywhere with more poverty than the US as not western, then by definition the US will have the most poverty of western societies.
jjoonathan
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One does not have to play with definitions to make this look bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#mediaviewer/Fil...
vilhelm_s
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They are, according to many definitions of "Western".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world#Modern_definitio...
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