The most globalised countries of the World

[VetLegion]

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2823.php?PHPSESSID=a90bad5937040095d1d747b5e4b9a8a1

Comments?

[Eli]

Haha. Take that, France.

[Provost Harrison]

I see that the US only gets that on connectivity...on the other stats it looks positively backwards

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I see that the US only gets that on connectivity...on the other stats it looks positively backwards

But the USA is a haven of free trade and democracy, surely it must be the most internationally open country!

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I see that the US only gets that on connectivity...on the other stats it looks positively backwards

Yes, rated 60, 40 and 43 for economy, personal and political respectively. And I bet that if you'd actually investigate how much of that Internet presence is actually used to communicate with people/organisations outside the US, they wouldn't score any better in the technology department...

In fact, if you leave out the technology factor, countries like Uganda, Botswana, Tunesia, Poland, the Philippines and even Greece score higher

[Dinner]

The results seem rather stacked against big countries. Take the economic (green) section where foreign direct investment and trade are considered (I assume) as a percentage of total economic activity. When you have a $12 trillion economy foreign direct investment can be huge but it will still be a tiny fraction of the over all economy while the foreign trade requirement means small countries with manufacture for export (like Singapore) get a big leg up over larger economies which also manufacture for domestic demand. Also the personal contact (read: travel) section also favors small countries (like Singapore) because if they travel any where it is automatically foreign travel where as larger countries have many interesting tourist destinations which are never the less very different from where the traveler is from.

In the main their stanards seem to be tilted to give small countries a leg up over large countries.

[Dauphin]

I would not say its a leg up - small countries are more internationally minded because they have to be.

The US could have the largest amount of international investment and trade in the world, but if it only represents a tiny fraction of their total trade and investment does internationalism effect their mentality more or less than a country that depends for its existence on imports/exports and tourism.

[Az]

Erm, who cares? How is a more globalized country better?

[Eli]

Originally posted by Az
Erm, who cares? How is a more globalized country better?

If it was the other way around, the French would've been better than us. We cant accept that, right?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Az
Erm, who cares? How is a more globalized country better?

It's an interesting statistic. I don't understand why it would be better, either, or why someone would think particular countries are geting a "leg up" statistically.

[Az]

I don't think it's a measurment at all, really. After all, Singapore isn't the best nation in the world.

[Bosh]

Why the ****ing hell is South Korea only 19th in technology (if what they're counting is internet-related stuff)? This study is very very ****ed up.

[Whoha]

if only the US economic integration statistic were true... the political one is a bit high as well.

[RGBVideo]

Yeh, what a crap chart for morons who believe in "experts" who pull these kind of rankings out of their butts. In Finland, there have been more of a person / capita using Internet for years

[RGBVideo]

What exactly are these bars supposed to represent in total? How tf is giving millions to a corrupted organisation which uses most of them for their own personal bank accounts a "globalised" action?