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Originally posted by Agamemnon+Jan 5 2005, 04:54 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Agamemnon @ Jan 5 2005, 04:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-MarchHare@Jan 5 2005, 10:40 PM
And if you look at the chart I linked, it's clear that Americans have been stingy, at least when compared to the donations made by citizens of other first-world nations.#
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Whoops, there we go, looks like someone definitely believes in American cheapness.
I'm not even sure per capita is a great way to measure it. I'd say first divide a State's GDP among its population, and find out the value of each individual, and THEN compare that to their contribution. If I give 10 bucks, and a (poor) Nigerian gives 10 bucks, didn't he give a whole lot more than I? [/b][/quote]
I don't want to get involved, but I don't like flawed logic in arguements.
The countries on the list given are all pretty well industrialized western nations. I think it would be safe to assume that the per capita GDP is probably pretty similar. I would even bet that the US is among the highest in the category for these nations. That being said, when you've got two countires that are over 16x higher than the US it is pretty hard to attribute that to differences in per capita GDP.
I still don't care who is or isn't being stingy, I just don't like it when people try to twist data to their own end.