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when he said "I pay 18 pounds" halfway through the sentence I thought he was going to say 18 thousand pounds and I actually thought "oh well thats not too bad"

American media seriously brainwashes the world. They like to show the world how beautiful the USA is but it has serious serious problems that people outside of the country don't see!

Someone once said USA is the world's most developed third world country

Don't worry y'all! The U.S. is getting right on these problems!

...By banning social media websites like this one that inform us of these policy failures in the first place!

America will collapse because of the Trump supporters

Jesus Christ! There's no way any country can possibly be this shittily run! This is a straight-up description of a dystopian society from a sci-fi film.

Imagine if USA was a real place

thank god i'm NOT ameriKLAN......and that's coming from a South African......ameriKKKa is a third world country with a Gucci wallet

Bulgaria, represent! 🇧🇬

And now compare the income of Americans in comparable jobs to the incomes in the EU. And THIS will show that the lack of public funding in these areas is actually covered privately. And our American friends will still have considerably more money left when they have paid for all this. If they stay healthy. And have a good education.

USA is a third world country with lots of money, that's all

• Map of the Week: Every Country Britain HAS NOT Invaded
Posted on October 13, 2023 by Carter House

Every Country Britain HAS NOT Invaded – map by Indy100.

Great Britain (or England, The United Kingdom, etc.) has possessed large international status and power for a number of centuries. Their early industrialization coupled with aspirations to dominate on the global level have led to these unrivaled amounts of invasion and colonization across the globe. Just 22 countries have not been invaded by Britain, highlighted in purple on this map: Andora, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Vatican City. Invading 171 out of 193 total countries worldwide is not a small feat, and the extent of this is emphasized in this map in which nearly the entire land area of the globe is shaded pink (meaning at one point invaded by Britain). For context, the United States has only invaded 68 total countries in its existence (although a much shorter time frame than Britain). This map effectively tells a story about the longstanding worldwide power of Great Britain, while staying as minimal as possible by conveying one simple statistic.

For centuries, the power of the British Empire allowed the nation to expand their territory and take advantage of areas that possessed useful resources. Colonization and the European “race” to take control of native peoples/regions in Africa and the Americas spanned for centuries, leading to invasions of most of the nations on those continents in a very short period of time. This wasn’t anything absurd for a powerful European nation from the 16th-18th centuries. Belgium and France were very present in Africa and Portugal and the Netherlands set their eyes on the sugar of the Americas. England, however, aimed for both and more as they had industrialized rapidly and were power hungry. The British Empire’s mission to show their industrial strength and assert dominance was their main motive, but it isn’t the same for all invasions. Each specific country/region has its own history and circumstances that cannot be shown on this map. The arrival of the British often meant a different thing depending on where it was. Some were taken advantage of by Europeans for their crops while others for slave trade or territorial dominance.

Examples of context differences when it comes to this map could be the United States (Revolutionary War period), colonization of Africa in the 19th century, and the World Wars. All of these have their own circumstantial differences and are relevant in different ways to Britain. The United States was a revolution against Britain in which they fought for control of the states, colonization in Africa lead to the slave trade and was based around resources and military control, and both World Wars consisted of many invasions by the British army across Europe. The reasons for these three individual invasions differ greatly, as they do with all 171. The map also cannot take into account the frequency, as while some African or Central American nations were raided just once, many European nations held several battles during the World Wars. This is not a problem – the map still gets its point across very efficiently, but its simplicity ignores important history of the very country it means to highlight and leaves the viewer with questions on this very topic.

The map breaks down centuries of history while simultaneously being as simple as possible, as it is just merely a world map with two different colors. Although not describing each individual invasion whatsoever or providing context, the map depicts the power of Britain throughout history in a concise and direct way. The choice to not include additional information about every country’s invasion is an intriguing one, as well as not possessing any labels or legends. The lack of this information forces questions such as: “How could one country possibly handle this?” or “When and why did Great Britain invade Thailand?”, dragging the viewer of this map into a rabbit hole of research and questions that make this map especially compelling. Britain has indeed invaded 90% of the countries in the world today, and this map is made into a very effective and simple way of conveying that statistic.

Works Cited

Kottke, Jason. “Britain Has Invaded All but 22 Countries.” 16 November 2012, Accessed 13 October 2023.

Vesey, Joe. “A map of every country Britain has ever invaded.” Indy100, 23 December 2018, Accessed 13 October 2023.

Source: richmond

Europe has invaded the most countries.

• Map of the Week: Every Country Britain HAS NOT Invaded
Posted on October 13, 2023 by Carter House

Every Country Britain HAS NOT Invaded – map by Indy100.

Great Britain (or England, The United Kingdom, etc.) has possessed large international status and power for a number of centuries. Their early industrialization coupled with aspirations to dominate on the global level have led to these unrivaled amounts of invasion and colonization across the globe. Just 22 countries have not been invaded by Britain, highlighted in purple on this map: Andora, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Vatican City. Invading 171 out of 193 total countries worldwide is not a small feat, and the extent of this is emphasized in this map in which nearly the entire land area of the globe is shaded pink (meaning at one point invaded by Britain). For context, the United States has only invaded 68 total countries in its existence (although a much shorter time frame than Britain). This map effectively tells a story about the longstanding worldwide power of Great Britain, while staying as minimal as possible by conveying one simple statistic.

For centuries, the power of the British Empire allowed the nation to expand their territory and take advantage of areas that possessed useful resources. Colonization and the European “race” to take control of native peoples/regions in Africa and the Americas spanned for centuries, leading to invasions of most of the nations on those continents in a very short period of time. This wasn’t anything absurd for a powerful European nation from the 16th-18th centuries. Belgium and France were very present in Africa and Portugal and the Netherlands set their eyes on the sugar of the Americas. England, however, aimed for both and more as they had industrialized rapidly and were power hungry. The British Empire’s mission to show their industrial strength and assert dominance was their main motive, but it isn’t the same for all invasions. Each specific country/region has its own history and circumstances that cannot be shown on this map. The arrival of the British often meant a different thing depending on where it was. Some were taken advantage of by Europeans for their crops while others for slave trade or territorial dominance.

Examples of context differences when it comes to this map could be the United States (Revolutionary War period), colonization of Africa in the 19th century, and the World Wars. All of these have their own circumstantial differences and are relevant in different ways to Britain. The United States was a revolution against Britain in which they fought for control of the states, colonization in Africa lead to the slave trade and was based around resources and military control, and both World Wars consisted of many invasions by the British army across Europe. The reasons for these three individual invasions differ greatly, as they do with all 171. The map also cannot take into account the frequency, as while some African or Central American nations were raided just once, many European nations held several battles during the World Wars. This is not a problem – the map still gets its point across very efficiently, but its simplicity ignores important history of the very country it means to highlight and leaves the viewer with questions on this very topic.

The map breaks down centuries of history while simultaneously being as simple as possible, as it is just merely a world map with two different colors. Although not describing each individual invasion whatsoever or providing context, the map depicts the power of Britain throughout history in a concise and direct way. The choice to not include additional information about every country’s invasion is an intriguing one, as well as not possessing any labels or legends. The lack of this information forces questions such as: “How could one country possibly handle this?” or “When and why did Great Britain invade Thailand?”, dragging the viewer of this map into a rabbit hole of research and questions that make this map especially compelling. Britain has indeed invaded 90% of the countries in the world today, and this map is made into a very effective and simple way of conveying that statistic.

Works Cited

Kottke, Jason. “Britain Has Invaded All but 22 Countries.” 16 November 2012, Accessed 13 October 2023.

Vesey, Joe. “A map of every country Britain has ever invaded.” Indy100, 23 December 2018, Accessed 13 October 2023.

Source: richmond

Europe has invaded the most countries.

"Wow - American college is so expensive! Europeans must all have higher rates of college attendance and graduation" [has lower rates]

"Wow - all EU countries guarantee 14 weeks of paid maternity leave. They must have lower unemployment for young people and higher birth rates" [has higher unemployment and lower birth rates"

"Wow - US spends soooo much on healthcare. How can they afford it?!" [Europoors]

NYT is trash and Europeans are fully propagandized.

Public Healthcare is Communism!
- Americans.

"America is the best country in the world" thats the best joke ever! 😂

How many tens of thousands if hundreds of thousands would that woman have to pay for treatment of her leg?

It sucks

Why would people have to pay health care in america even if they have good teeth they pay for health care and schools aint safe there why dont we realize that acctually free health care and safe schools is really inportant why do ghey take the L its unfair tyat secretly they are taking the k i hipe americans get that free heath care and safe schools

Americans dont care, they dont think of any countries outside their own.

Except when theyre claiming theyre some sort of European because their great, great, great grandparents migrated.

If the USA is so bad then why does everyone want to move here.

From my understanding of EU (from European friends in various EU countries) the healthcare/maternity leave/ university is not magically free. It’s paid with individual large taxes that go to the collective good. That being said, Americans have long fought against it because of the taxes. The unfortunate part is that now some larger blue cities and individual states have taxes that are as high as the European ones and those citizens do NOT get the benefits that the European citizens do. It’s awful. On top of that people have been brainwashed into individuals paying for health insurance that covers less and less annually. And these health insurance companies now also own hospitals, doctors groups and even pharmaceutical companies (hello United and Optimum talking to you). Those corporations have 4 lobbyist per each individual law maker on the capital. Their interests are being represented over the citizens. Why don’t people riot? Because it’s been a slow insidious slide into corporate run, private socialized cruddy healthcare. People begin to adjust and think it’s just this way. I love my country in so many ways but absolutely see how other countries are doing things better. Medicine and Pharmaceutical should have never become a business with investors. Everyone loses

They are rioting….to cancel police lmao

Black Europeans! Go figure...

This is stupid because all this stuff, varies state-by-state and company by company.

Using MIT for the college thing is a little silly but whatever

Dear NYT, if it is all so bad here..... move!

Bruh the fact that I know several people here in university that have to pay so little that the uni basically said "just wait next semester to pay"
(Here in italy your tuition depends on what you earn)

God bless America smh

The gun debate still kills me. I own 5 guns. I have shot and killed exactly zero people. There are a lot more gun deaths in America. A significant portion of them are by suicide. America does not have a gun problem. America has a mental health problem. People feel helpless and alone and powerless. A gun is power. In the wrong hands that power can wreak havoc. But the 99.999 percent of gun owners it’s a shield and it’s a source of bonding, and entertainment and security.

When I realized Brazilian healthcare is better the USA.
How can they pay for an ambulance

It's New York times

Of course it's them it got to be there the New York times.

I knew something was fishy about this channel.

Eu gets free universal health care but complain are still broke.

America gets no universal healthcare but complain we are broke.

Eu makes fun of us cause we no spoiled or privliged like them.

They speak into a microphone with a mask on, so as not to infect the cameraman who is 3 meters away; they are very intelligent. 😂

they are only pointing out the negative things only,
they talk about how american universities are so expensive and there's no maternal leave but conveniently leave out the part where americans earn twice of what most europeans earn
they talk about how healthcare is so expensive but never talk about how the quality of american healthcare is unmatched and all of the best doctors for europe come to america
they talk about how banning on handguns was overturned but never talk about how it is a part of the constitution hence the ban was illegal and it's thanks to the second amendment that america can defend and has defended against anybody trying to take away their freedom and it has made them unconquerable

We could be able to make all these things possible if we weren’t giving our tax dollars to these countries. Gotta fix home first.

I will have an American Nightmare If i forced to Go to US

Having a good day, Germany? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Here for my Social Welfare Analysis class. That looks terrible! US needs to change OMG. Thanks for the eye opening!

No health care, and guns for everyone. US is definitely not pro-life.

They are English!!!!!Only English!!!!

There is this mind game: you can choose which country you are born in, but you don't know whether you will be born rich or poor. Which country do you want to be born in? As a centre-west northern European and proud EU citizen, I say: I want to live right here, where I live, I would be born poor.
However, if the mind game says that I will be born rich (let's say: with a monthly income of over 15 K euros/dollars), then I choose the USA without hesitation. The EU is good to the poor and weak (which is not a bad thing) - but the EU penalises those who earn a lot and are productive. We call it the welfare state.

They get in a war. Guess who there gonna look to.

As always, American culture and optimism is the cool thing. Only reason we do not progress universal healthcare, low to free college tuition, and gun safety because we do not want to deal with major taxes (our taxes are still high depending on which state). We don’t want to deal with the overhaul of guns or putting gun safety in place without bias. Education is a right in our country but somebody has to fix the toilet. Everybody can’t be a doctor, a lawyer, or a well educated Teacher.

The American Dream is an illusion.

Poor people can get Medicaid in the U.S. and in New York State you can go to a SUNY college tuition free (with some restrictions).

Sadly big SUVs are more important to most people than paying higher taxes. So pleased I’m not American.

So someone in the comments is complaining, they’re all English . They’re not somebody is German somebody is Irish and message few others. The problem is most continental European is now speak with American accent.. which I find so sad because Americans already Believe that if they hear anybody, speaking English that they must be American. Also, I love hearing accents from other countries in peoples voices . I like to be able to recognise them as French , Italian German Spanish et cetera.