Which country would you rather live in?

[Sava]

If you go to an emergency room you will get treatment with or without insurance, if you need it to save your life. That's what I'm talking about.

Any decent healthcare in Russia will come at a price.

Sounds... the same

[Bereta_Eder]

I think you're thinking of the wrong Ecuador there.

Isn't there a small island in the middle of nowhere in the pacific ocean called equador?

[N35t0r]

Easter Island? The Galapagos?

[Bereta_Eder]

propably those ones. :/
i searched for equador and indeed is a land country.
I thought it was an island like the galapagos.

[N35t0r]

[rah]

And the worst thing is that his geography knowledge is probably still better than 90% of young americans.

[PLATO]

I had a black Spanish teacher from Quito in college. She wasn't gay though.

[Bereta_Eder]

there was a guy from school who said he was from equador and he said it was a small island in the middle of nowhere and he kept saying how awesome it was and that it was like paradise etc
his name was jose' (which means "stuff it in", in greek) so we basically made fun with that

[Bereta_Eder]

or now that I think better of it, he said it was on the "equatorial line" :/

[giblets]

Spanish speaking islands near equator:
Galapagos
Portuguese speaking islands near equator:
Sao tome and principe

[Bereta_Eder]

so it must have been the galapagos because he could speak spanish too.
btw his name always came up when he was trying to score in basketball or trying to approach girls

[regexcellent]

And the worst thing is that his geography knowledge is probably still better than 90% of young americans.

I see this repeated all the time but I don't think it's actually true, in particular that Americans are especially ignorant about geography. Some people know about geography and some people don't. If you ask the average Brit to point out, say, Bhutan on a map they'd have just as much trouble.

Spanish speaking islands near equator:
Galapagos
Portuguese speaking islands near equator:
Sao tome and principe

You forgot Equatorial Guinea, which speaks Spanish.

[Bereta_Eder]

it's always nice to learn new things

I'm quite positive that it must have been either santiago, isabella, santa cruz, san christobal or fernantina (which are, after searching the main galapagos islands )

[kentonio]

I see this repeated all the time but I don't think it's actually true, in particular that Americans are especially ignorant about geography. Some people know about geography and some people don't. If you ask the average Brit to point out, say, Bhutan on a map they'd have just as much trouble.

Most of them could find their own country though.

The National Geographic–Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey polled more than 3,000 18- to 24-year-olds in Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden and the United States.

Sweden scored highest; Mexico, lowest. The U.S. was next to last.

....

About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...perSurvey.html

[Thoth]