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We think of Jamaica or the Bahamas are idyllic holiday isles with palm-fringed beaches where the people lie around in hammocks sipping coconut juice with those little umbrellas stick out of them. The reality is most Jamaicans work like everywhere else.
Well, in fact many people in Britain think of Spain as an idyllic holiday resort with palm-fringed beaches where the people lie around in hammocks sipping coconut juice with those little umbrellas stick out of them.
Generally, which country in each continent do you consider the fastest paced? How about slowest paced?
Of course big cities in general are fastest paced, and places in colder climates tend to be faster than warmer regions... but this is about the overall pace of a country & society/ national culture as a whole
N America:
Fastest: US
Slowest: somewhere in Caribbean
Europe:
Fastest: Italy or Greece
Slowest: Spain or Portugal
Asia:
Fastest: Hong Kong or Japan
Slowest: Malaysia
Africa? South America?
for Europe you chose Italy or Greece?..I would say England for fastest.
for Africa I would say South Africa or Egypt for fast pace..probably South Africa and everywhere else for slowest.
Well, in fact many people in Britain think of Spain as an idyllic holiday resort with palm-fringed beaches where the people lie around in hammocks sipping coconut juice with those little umbrellas stick out of them.
People in Britain don't think of Spain as being like that at all - they just think 'sun, beaches, booze!', which is why I hate the place, too touristy.
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Well, the Kalahari etc. is like an open-air museum, most Africans hate that kind of life and have abandoned it already, if they ever lead it in the first place. Most have never been hunter-gatherers, but farmers. The average African probably hunts less than the average American. Nor is there any reason to tell the few remaining hunter-gatherers to maintain that way of life, just because we like to think of Africa as a primitive museum continent.
Here is a map of the percentage of the urban population (source UN and Wiki, so I hope it is ok to publish here):
As you can see in most countries that have large populations such as West African countries the majority already live in cities, and I bet the colors are even more purple today, just five years after that map was made. Rural life as such doesn't mean it is more primitive or in any way related to hunting-gathering. Americans in rural Kansas or Germany are hardly hunter-gatherers
Originally we were all hunter gatherers. Just moreso in Africa until recently. I think if more had continued that way of life instead of farming there wouldn't be as much infertility, desertification and famine as there is now.
Originally we were all hunter gatherers. Just moreso in Africa until recently. I think if more had continued that way of life instead of farming there wouldn't be as much infertility, desertification and famine as there is now.
Fair, enough, Trimac. Here's you bow and arrows. Happy hunting!
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Surprised by Japan, I'd have thought villages were almost nonexistent there
Far from it. Japan has a lot of old, and still retains a lot of traditions beside the modern way of life.
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