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Canada is the most educated nation!

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My country about 70 percent of the people have Diploma's, degrees and driver licenses.

But about 55 percent of those were bought at a Nigerian Photo Copier shop.
 
Pocatello said:
There must be a lot of Asians in Canada.
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Actually yes. IIRC, they are something like 10x more common than in the US. Vancouver is 205% Asian.

It's as shocking as Canadians finding out black people are EVERYWHERE in the US. The city of Detroit is like 80% black.
 
ShawnD1 said:
Actually yes. IIRC, they are something like 10x more common than in the US. Vancouver is 205% Asian.

It's as shocking as Canadians finding out black people are EVERYWHERE in the US. The city of Detroit is like 80% black.
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True. I think black people make up about 1-2% of the population in Vancouver. White is about 48%.

The other 50% are mostly Chinese, with a strong showing of Koreans, Vietnamese, Indians, and Japanese.
 
ShawnD1 said:
Actually yes. IIRC, they are something like 10x more common than in the US. Vancouver is 205% Asian.

It's as shocking as Canadians finding out black people are EVERYWHERE in the US. The city of Detroit is like 80% black.
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And? Just a different color but have red blood and the same amount of organs as every other person
 
LiuKangBakinPie said:
And? Just a different color but have red blood and the same amount of organs as every other person
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Black people statistically have fewer organs because they get shot more often
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I'm not sure if this means 'most educated' since the quality of a Canadian university education is not very good, IMO.
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They're not very good in the US either. The first year is teaching you grade 8 grammar all over again. The quality sure has slipped a lot in the last few decades. There was a time when you actually had to be smart and stuff to finish.... stuff... college. You can blame capitalism for that one. People pay $30,000 per year for a degree, then it would make sense if we (the school) allowed all of them to float through all 4 years. Mo people = mo money. That's part of the reason degrees are worthless these days. In 1950 or whatever, having a 4 year degree in English might mean you're one bad ass mofo with English. Now it just means you managed to stay awake at least half the time and showed up for some of the classes and maybe did some of the assignments in between raves and sex marathons.

In countries like Canada where all schools are government schools, degrees being worthless is because the government keeps increasing the amount of money spent on universities. With tight budgets, a class might have 30 people, so it has the 30 best people. Expand the budget so it has 300 people, and now they can accept all 290 people that applied, even the really stupid ones.
 
KeithTalent said:
Based on what, exactly? :hmm:

KT
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Well, 'very good' is relative, but generally Canadian universities don't tend to be ranked among the most elite in the world. Moreover, a lot of the better graduates from Canadian universities end up going to the US, so it makes the remaining Canadian population of lower overall quality than the current Canadian university population.

I would put Canada towards the top, but I'm not sure if I would say that it is the most educated nation.
 
Howard said:
These exist?

No, I think you hate Canadians because they share ancestry with the British.
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A word hate itself is bad word...and I'm sorry for people, who use it and who have such feeling - hate anyone, who's not like you....

2nd thing, you can not dislike anyone by generalizing a country - everywhere do live very different people...and many factors about any given country: inside/foreign politics, food, people, cultures...etc...
 
silverpig said:
Not saying this is a definitive list or anything, and rankings are subjective, but that's what we're talking about anyways:

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011

11 Stanford
12 Caltech
17 McGill
21 UC Berkeley
23 U of Toronto
34 UCLA
51 UBC

Not quite as good, but "not even close" doesn't apply.

In Canada, there's no Stanford or Harvard, but going to the "best" university is only marginally better than going to an "okay" one. The top isn't as high, but the bottom isn't as low.
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Rankings are definitely subjective, but that list has some bizarre criteria.

My comment still stands.
 
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silverpig said:
True. I think black people make up about 1-2% of the population in Vancouver. White is about 48%.

The other 50% are mostly Chinese, with a strong showing of Koreans, Vietnamese, Indians, and Japanese.
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I'm not going to lie... when I went back to New York the first time as an adult, I was surprised by how many 'African Americans' there were.

It's mostly "west of China" Asians in my city.
 
CanOWorms said:
Rankings are definitely subjective, but that list has some bizarre criteria.

My comment still stands.
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I'll grant that Stanford and Caltech consistently rank higher than Canadian schools, but the US system is relatively on par with Canadian schools. Multiple different ranking systems would agree with me.

You're just making stuff up again as usual.
 
silverpig said:
I'll grant that Stanford and Caltech consistently rank higher than Canadian schools, but the US system is relatively on par with Canadian schools. Multiple different ranking systems would agree with me.
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Interesting. Multiple different ranking systems would agree with me, too.

You're just making stuff up again as usual.
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Same to you.
 
IAteYourMother said:
Why does Canada have such a small population given its relative wealth/prosperity, healthcare, and political stability? I get that it's fucking cold, but given its positives, I'd expect it to have more people than other fucking cold countries
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I believe around 75% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border. So even Canadians don't want to live any further north, let alone non-Canadians. To drastically increase our population we'd need people to stretch further north.

Plus our housing costs and taxes are higher in Canada than the US currently (I think on taxes they are higher). Housing could/probably will drop some, taxes will not.

And yes many Asians. Many. They come here to go to school too (especially in BC).
 
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KeithTalent said:
Well considering the relatively moderate population here, our universities actually rank quite favourably around the world.

KT

Edit: oh wait, aren't you the asshole who just shits on Canada for everything for some strange reason? :hmm:
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CanOWorms and Rabidmongoose are the two that shit on everything Canada yes.
 
J-Money said:
I believe around 75% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border. So even Canadians don't want to live any further north, let alone non-Canadians. To drastically increase our population we'd need people to stretch further north.
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Even your current cities are not especially densely populated. It's not like you're Japan or South Korea.
 
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