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Many people haven't traveled to LATAM and it shows. I've traveled and lived with working class people who've shared their homes with me as a student. Whoever said Argentina has the potential is smoking some good weed because while I was there it looked like Chile in the 90s. It was modern but very outdated.
Chile on the other hand clearly looked like it had the best potential to reach first world status. It was cleaner, more modern and safer than Argentina.
Just the little time I spent there I noticed how well run the country is and could easily believe the figures that say chile is the least corrupt Latin American country.
But yes it did seem as though it was still difficult for people to not live paycheck to paycheck. The only positive thing I can say about that is that I didn't see any of the extreme poverty you'd see in Brazil or even the level of poverty I saw in Argentina. The poverty was similar to what I see in Los Angeles, California where the wages are low and the COL high. Chile is similar to an Eastern Europen country, a city like Prague might suffice as a comparison, no? Poverty is still there but it's slightly different. It's not enough to call Chile third world. If these labels had any real meaning anymore it would be somewhere between first and third. A second world country but closer to first then third.
Chile is on a different plain with its problems. It's passed the problems that still afflict other LATAM nations.
I'm sorry to say but Argentinians have a weird relationship with Chile and find any chance to put down their neighbor. Same with Peruvians. I just find it difficult to believe they can be impartial when it comes to Chile's success.
Chile may not be right at first world but it's the closest thing to it as far as LATAM is concerned and it sure blows Argentina away. I'm a US American from Texas who's visited several countries that are first world and chile is miles ahead of that game over its neighbors. Argentina to me had the culture, the history and the flavor of a European country but still the poverty and corruption of the third world.
Chile to me felt very Anglo-German by comparison, very well run, very efficient, and highly organized.
You can insist as much as you want, but that won't change the facts.
South Korea and greenland third world? Eastern Europe is really not much further advanced than much of Latin America, I would say some countries are better of in LATAM than some Eastern Europe countries. Your map is a little off there.
You can insist as much as you want, but that won't change the facts.
Chile isn't a third world country…. nor a "developing" economy either…. It's not even an "emerging" one… no, according to world economic forum Chile is a "transitioning" country. So is Hungary and Poland. Slovakia and Czech already passed "transition"
Or do you honestly think OECD would add Chile as a member? Or IMF classifying Chile as the ONLY country with a combined "Very High Human Development Status" along with "HIgh Income", OECD country if it truly was a poor, third world country?
Would the U.S add a "third world" nation to the U.S Visa waiver program? Or Canada? No, only Chile classifies.
Here's a human development map: (darker blue means more developed…duh)
I'm sorry to say but Argentinians have a weird relationship with Chile and find any chance to put down their neighbor. Same with Peruvians. I just find it difficult to believe they can be impartial when it comes to Chile's success.
Chile may not be right at first world but it's the closest thing to it as far as LATAM is concerned and it sure blows Argentina away. I'm a US American from Texas who's visited several countries that are first world and chile is miles ahead of that game over its neighbors. Argentina to me had the culture, the history and the flavor of a European country but still the poverty and corruption of the third world.
Chile to me felt very Anglo-German by comparison, very well run, very efficient, and highly organized.
South Korea and greenland third world? Eastern Europe is really not much further advanced than much of Latin America, I would say some countries are better of in LATAM than some Eastern Europe countries. Your map is a little off there.
I already told the guy to stop trolling
And Adrian91, Argentina doesn't have the highest human development index in LATAM. Chile does.
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