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You can't really compare countries based on HDI if they are close to each other belonging to the same "class". The differences between the countries in TOP 20 - 30 are in many cases caused by non-meaningful factors like a slightly longer compulsory elementary school which however doesn't necessarily make the pupils better. HDI doesn't take into consideration the quality of education, for example just its duration.
Even if you could meaningfully compare countries in that TOP 42 list, I cannot see a correlation between country size and a better HDI score. Of course someone should make statistical analysis before we could be sure though.
This is however one strong factor that negatively correlates with HDI:
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And what kind of relevance do you want? An Imperial one? To fill what, an absurd sort of "collective ego"? There's already football and cheaper stuff for that.
If citizens of a country live in wealthy and peaceful conditions, what sort of "relevance" do they need? It is relevant for them. And people do know they exist.
< La Catalogne peut se passer de l'univers entier, et ses voisins ne peuvent se passer d'elle. > Voltaire
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Relevance nowadays means have a voice in the international arena. International law is based on power, and if your country is a bird poop, the chances of a big fish treating you like its bitch or impose their particular conditions over yours are more possible.
This was known for centuries and the trend was to create strong countries, but now some of you believe to be much more intelligent than them and want to go back to the time of the medieval fiefdoms.
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Small countries are more successful: Cher Comte, avec tout le respect qui vous est dû, all that is pure horseshit.
I clicked the link. Datas were provided by the World Bank. In other word, frigging New World Order propaganda.
Most successful nations in the UE: small Portugal and tiny Greece perhaps?
How comes Albania isn't scoring high in the list?
If Catalonia and Scotland are ranking higher than the states they belong to, do they really need to go independent?
If the global banking dictatorship wants our countries to be split in smaller units, how come they don't suggest the bloody U.S. of A. should also undergo a similar process?
My opinion:
• Ukrainia back to Russia
• Time to revive the Swedish-Norwegian union
• Re-establish Yugoslavia (including Bulgaria)
• Split Belgium between her neighbours,
• For Catalonia, all the self-government they're longing for, but within an Iberian Union that shall also include Portugal (with one Foreign Affairs ministry, one Army, one navy)
• Greece under Italian administration,
• A re-United Kingdom including Ireland.
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You are always going to get more than if your country doesn't exist at all.
And there are large third-world countries which are considered much more 'bird poop', as you put it, than small/medium European ones.
On the contrary, it's the 21st century. It's that belief that larger is stronger the one which belongs to the past.
The irony is that, if someone told you to really be strong and form one single European country to rival the US, China, Russia, or emerging Brazil and India on a foot of equal size, then you'd be the first to say 'no way' and defend your small 40-million-people State.
< La Catalogne peut se passer de l'univers entier, et ses voisins ne peuvent se passer d'elle. > Voltaire
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Third World countries are Third World countries regardless of their size.
Now the belief is the smallest, the better...to be controlled by supranational institutions like EU And Spain is enough big to have a word in international scenario, as long we could build again our dismantled industry, establish the alliances that better fit with our interests and have nukes.
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Yes. Independence for São Paulo now!
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It's dangerous to start ripping apart countries based on transient unsatisfactory/niggling political conditions. It's foolish to think that the peace and prosperity we have now will last forever. Are we just bored because we have stopped fighting our neighbours for a while, so we have started bickering within our own families because we have nothing bigger to focus on? We'll need our families when peace breaks. It's short-sighted.
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