China only appears rich because people only talk about the Eastern coastal region but it's a big country and all of the land is involved and Western China get's as underdeveloped as the lower end of sub saharan African countries
Canada only appears rich because people only talk about the southern border region but it's a big country and all of the land is involved and southern canada get's as underdeveloped as the lower end of sub saharan African countries
India is also having a failing birth rate, some areas of the country are down to like 1.2 children per women. It's just this one area, UP/Bihar(the Florida/Ohio of India), which has like 5 children per women, and pushes the statistic up. Also, most of the negative stereotypes about India come from that place as well.
It's obviously a map using the former Soviet states as part of the "Global North" and such inclusion is pretty standard. I remember it on geography textbooks from a decade ago.
This is probably an old version of the global north vs south where all those countries were part of the Soviet Union. China and South Korea are definitely not global south anymore.
Why don’t they draw a 1000 meter high wall to avoid this war, like the one proposed between Mexico and the US? We can ask the poor countries to bear the cost and man power asks of such a wall. I have the architecture for such a wall too. Here it is:
Depends, the industrial centers especially in the coastal cities have a lot of middle class inhabitants whose purchase power is probably above that of the average person in western countries. More rural areas are still quite poor though.
It is indeed relative to the rest of the world (even having higher wages than the UK I believe) but relative to the US it is very similar to the Balkans relative to Western Europe
If you were an alien visiting the richest city in US (NYC) and the richest city in China (Shanghai), you would be confused by the metrics humans use to measure wealth.
Clearly you have never visited a rural village in china vs US rural: drug abuse, random homeless tent camps on the side of the highway, trash and rusted cars on overgrown lawns, sad abandoned homes.
Rural chinese might not live in luxury but they aren't burdened with heavy debts, homelessness and shitty food and cancer from oversprayed farms.
Probably done on a per capita basis. China is as rich as the united states but shares this wealth between 4x as many people. New Zealand has rich people but isn’t a ‘rich’ company.
Turkiye, Argentina and Chile are poor compared to the west on a per capita basis but still quite well off. Saudi Arabia and the micro states being included on the map would give me a headache
According to this map borders. I would say that only rich countries in the north is USA, Norway, Switzerland, and Germany. Rest countries in the north are poor/normal class.
I get it, I'm Brazilian. We're cooked. But just call us the rest, the plebs, the poor unfortunate souls, call us cringe, call us whatever you want. It just irks me to no end to think about southern Tasmania as "north" and Manchuria as "south".
I know words earn new meanings depending on context, but come on, imagine stretching the meaning of two words originally meaning different geographic directions so thin, to the point you reduce them to the meaning of rich and poor. Hell, even with that in mind, I'd much rather live in 'poor' Chile than in 'rich' Flint, Michigan or Moldova.
Of course I am autistic, but come on. This isn't only intellectually dishonest, a blatant and very unhelpful generalisation of how the world works, it's also really, really dumb. The country with the 2nd highest GDP is in the poor part. We're 10 years from seeing China become the largest economy in the world, but of course, it's in the poor part.
Let's ignore that you included South Korea in the poor part of this particular map, but of course, most other maps depicting the global south and north include it as the global north. Its democracy is held together by strings and paper clips. It's as unstable as I am and I'm the living version of Psalm 42, but no, it's SO RICH AND NORTHERN. Oh, and South Korea is WESTERN too, but let's not get into that subject today
WHAT ARE WORDS EVEN FOR ANYMORE???? I HATE BEING ABLE TO READ, LET ALONE BEING ABLE TO READ ENGLISH AND HAVING MY BRAIN COLONIZED BY SUCH DUMB CONCEPTS
Oh, my sweet summer child. Such a war will never be imminent, for once declared it is assured suicide for the south. No, no. The perpetual war will be fought between conflicting states in the rich North over who gets to denegrate and rob the poor southerners for the next half century.
The "Rich North" is not a thing, neither is the "Poor South".
There's the 'West' normally refering to North America, Europe (without Russia & Turkey) and sometimes their allies: SK, Japan & Australia.
The other countries are often referred to as the 'global south' however they still contain some rich countries (like Singapore, Brunei in SE Asia and of course the Arabic OPEG countries: Qatar, UAE, Kuwait; to a lesser degree also Saudia Arabia, Bahrain & Oman).
Armenia and Azerbaijan teaming up against Turkey, Iran, Israel and Palestine territories.
China, Taiwan, North and South Koreas teaming up against Japan and the US.
Pakistan and India teaming up against Russia.
Cyprus teaming up with Turkey to fight Greece.
Ukraine and Russia together ganging on North Korean troops stuck in Kursk.
Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE and new Syrian leadership join Iran and Yemen Houthis against the US.
Falklands teaming up with Argentina against the UK? Canaries on the side of Morocco against Spain? French Guiana leaving France, or does it count as civil war?
Yes because areas like Buryatia and Sakhalin are known for their sprawling metropoles and very modern standard of living, while places like Seoul, Hong Kong, Beijing, Chennai, and Rio are clearly backwards hovels.
This map is dumb and does a poor job of illustrating a real problem.
Weird that this excludes South Korea but includes the quite poor central Asian -stan countries.
Separating the world's economic divides by cardinal direction is way too reductive. It's just white people and a few small parts of East Asia that are wealthy.
Or if the goal is to be reductive you can say colonizers and non-colonizers. Every wealthy country had colonies at some point, or is a former colony that is still controlled by the colonizer population. Turns out dominating and controlling lands and peoples hundreds of years ago is still the number one predictor of national wealth today.
Brother gave the the south china and india, the north is so very cooked.
For real though how do you go 'north v south', and then carve out Australia, or go 'poor v rich' and have Russia and China on the wrong sides of that delineation.
Why does the line go above the North Atlantic European islands?
Azores, Madeira and Canary islands. I mean greater GDP per Capita or life quality than even most mainland Europe.
I'm actually kind of baffled at the selection here. In concept, Turkey, China, India, South Korea, and Indonesia are all about to unite into a war with Europe
If you're going to draw that wack ass line to include Australia and New Zealand, why not also grab south korea on the way down? The whole global south thing is fucking stupid anyway.
Problem with China being in the South (other than its massive gdp) is that it condemns nearby as like South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore to be in the poor section or thr map will look ass
I wanted to ask how Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan part of the ’rich north‘ but not South Korea and Taiwan but then I realised this a cj sub
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u/paarnannguaq05 Jan 02 '25
OP has to be Kazakh or Uzbek there's no way