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The most surprising, impressive, unprecedented events I noticed for each of my favorite maps I have up in the earlier post:
2. Where People Are The Most Welcoming and Least Welcoming to Foreigners: Is Austria, Belgium, Portugal, and Ireland the European countries being most welcoming to foreigners? I expected this to be France, UK, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain.
Hong Kong is infinitely more welcoming to foreigners compared to everything else in mainland China? Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Japan ranked relatively well in this international map with Hong Kong.
There is no way New Zealand is more welcoming to foreigners compared to Australia, the much more worldly, multicultural, cosmopolitan country in Oceania.
I expected Argentina to be number 1 in South America, and especially more than Brazil.
5. World Map of Major Religions in Each Country: Every country in all of North America, Central America, Caribbean, and South America have a majority religion being Christianity with no exceptions for majority religion?
Asia is much better for having a mix of popular religious and spiritual beliefs in life over there with Buddhist majority, Christianity, Hindu, Unaffiliated, and No Clear Majority. However, I expected more religious/spiritual dominance of Buddhism in Asia.
South Korea shows no clear majority, mostly an even mix of Christians, Buddhists, and unaffiliated in South Korea.
The Most Christian countries in modern Europe right now is Poland, and Romania, and if they qualify for being part of Europe: Georgia, and Armenia I noticed in the map. Albania, Bosnia are actually Muslim majority.
India used to be originally Buddhist, then became majority Hindu, and should go back to being majority Buddhist.
6. The Countries Where People Are the Most And Least Emotional: This depends on what each person views being emotional, and is not the same for everyone, so maybe not being able to appropriately rank all of the most and least emotional countries.
There is the pleasant, encouraging, good, positive, soulful, peaceful, appropriately judging form of being emotional vs. the opposite bad, negative, discouraging, overly sensitive, overly judgmental forms of being emotional. There is an obvious noticeable difference between the two main extreme forms of being emotional.
Is Belgium, Ireland, France, and Spain the most emotional countries in Europe? Most people are not going to believe the Philippines being the most emotional country in Asia? All of South America seems very emotional in this map. Lol
19. Economic inequality around the World: Sweden is number 1 right now for the good form of Socialist/Communist economic equality, and no other country in the same category for Sweden?
South Korea actually ranked very well for economic equality.
Bosnia is doing much worse than any other country in Europe for lack of economic equality.
24. More Than Half of Humanity Lives Inside this Circle of Asia: Wow, this is amazing, and makes me appreciate, and respect Asia even more. However, I believe I already knew this for a long time, just nice and surprising to finally see an official visual map proving this about the majority of the world population technically in Asia.
28. Child poverty in the developed world: Finland is number 1 for the lowest percentage of child poverty rates for any country in the world?
For “developed” countries, the website link for this exact map said USA is second to last place for lowest poverty rate for children, and 2nd highest percentage of families+children in poverty for any developed country.
31. Meet the World’s 26 remaining monarchies: Monarchies don’t always have to be oppressive for people. The monarchy government system is working relatively well in modern times for the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Malaysia, and Thailand.
35. A Partial Map of Geopolitical Anomalies: All of the overseas regions being in the same country of France: Reunion, Tahiti Polynesia, New Caledonia, Mayotte, Guiana, Martinique, and Guadeloupe.
The unrecognized puppet state in between Moldova, and Ukraine.
It is unbelievable The United Nations is continuing to not officially recognize Taiwan being a separate country.
The maritime border dispute between Japan and South Korea.
The geographic border disputed between China and India.
South Korea and North Korea used to be the same country and becoming completely different from each other in almost everything imaginable, while having the same historic ethnic heritage not too long ago.
Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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True, I didn't realize that earlier... but I think it is still interesting that France, of all countries in Europe that were surveyed, had one of the most favorable views of the US.
The US is usually positively seen in France. I'm not sure about the reverse.
The most surprising, impressive, unprecedented events I noticed for each of my favorite maps I have up in the earlier post:
2. Where People Are The Most Welcoming and Least Welcoming to Foreigners: Is Austria, Belgium, Portugal, and Ireland the European countries being most welcoming to foreigners? I expected this to be France, UK, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain.
I am also surprised about this fact, especially with Austria. Portugal is OK. really welcoming.
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