Colombia 3rd happiest country in the world according to Business Week

tasco66 says on Aug 29, 2008, 11:08:

Thank you Presidente Uribe for making Colombians some of the most happy people on the planet...

Not being bound to swear to the dogmas of any master

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Bill Turley (☼Travelguide writer) says on Aug 29, 2008, 11:31:

dwmte7 says on Aug 29, 2008, 12:28:

thank you folks for enjoying it.

dwmte

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Mononoke28 says on Aug 29, 2008, 12:31:

"Colombia's literacy rate is 94%, well above the world average"

I don't believe that.

Diana

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tasco66 says on Aug 29, 2008, 12:34:

what do you think is world average? 99%???

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Mononoke28 says on Aug 29, 2008, 12:41:

Well I understand that statement as saying that 94% of Colombians are literate. Am reading it wrong? =\

If not, then no, I don't think the literacy rate is that high.

Diana

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romy says on Aug 29, 2008, 12:44:

74 Colombia 92.8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate

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Mononoke28 says on Aug 29, 2008, 12:45:

I was thinking more like 90%. Seriously. It sounds to me that the people who came up with 94% are the same ones who said 80% of Colombian households owned a computer or something along those lines.

Diana

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pobrecito says on Aug 29, 2008, 13:09:

"Thank you Presidente Uribe for making Colombians some of the most happy people on the planet..."

Please, please, call emergency ....

De que vale la vida si cuando la tenemos parece muerta. La vida es para sentirla, para vibrar, para luchar, para combatir. Eso justifica nuestro paso por la tierra........Jaime Pardo Leal

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tasco66 says on Aug 29, 2008, 13:27:

Pobre, will all know you are not a happy person...

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pobrecito says on Aug 29, 2008, 14:46:

Who knows ? but I do not want to describe my private and social life.
You would be surprised.

De que vale la vida si cuando la tenemos parece muerta. La vida es para sentirla, para vibrar, para luchar, para combatir. Eso justifica nuestro paso por la tierra........Jaime Pardo Leal

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tasco66 says on Aug 29, 2008, 14:47:

I doubt it...

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pobrecito says on Aug 29, 2008, 15:06:

If you want ... but it is not important for PBH.

Tasco, I think you are a loner, without wife, without children and that your pleasure is in Internet.
I have pity on you.

De que vale la vida si cuando la tenemos parece muerta. La vida es para sentirla, para vibrar, para luchar, para combatir. Eso justifica nuestro paso por la tierra........Jaime Pardo Leal

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johnny2008 says on Aug 29, 2008, 17:48:

Quoting "Mononoke28"

"I was thinking more like 90%. Seriously. It sounds to me that the people who came up with 94% are the same ones who said 80% of Colombian households owned a computer or something along those lines."

Maybe the literacy stats were worked out in good faith but Colombia has a numeracy problem. Maybe they were put together by the CIA, they say in the World Factbook - 90% of Paraguayans are bilingual. 10% speak only spanish and 10% speak only guarani.

So that'd be errrrr 80% bilingual then

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manINred says on Aug 29, 2008, 18:21:

Seems a bit difficult to measure a nation's 'happiness'. It's such a subjective term. I wonder how the sampling was done, and were the marginalized populations in Colombia ignored like in many of these surveys?

But I suppose it is the overwhelming air of optimism surrounding better security and prosperity that accounts for Colombia being so 'happy'. Let's hope it continues.

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dwmte7 says on Aug 29, 2008, 18:36:

the real point is...who here is really literate? who really knows colombia? who's lived there for more than a month or two, week? day? year? more than a year? more than five years? if (the yous) come and go. what do you really know of colombia? have you been outta the cities and known and felt the tears and fears of the folks who are born and raised there, who put up with the corruption and rip off of the "haves" and the corrupt? who deal with life on a daily basis? common, get real...you know squat. get outta town...learn what it's like for the insurgents to take over your house/home/family, and community, to kill your friends and parents and priests. learn a bit about what REAL colombia is all about. THEN, THEN, come and talk here. until then, calm down, get a little humble and know about what you speak, before you speak.

dwmte

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rocinante says on Aug 29, 2008, 18:37:

It's been continuing for over 5 years. There is a report like this twice a year where Colombia is in the top 5.


"thank you folks for enjoying it." DWMTE

Thanks for having us Douglas.

"World economic indicators point to a democrat winning 2008. It will surely be Obama. Not that the US president actually runs the US." Feb 5, 2008

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Lisa Zee says on Aug 29, 2008, 18:44:

We were second and one time first, oh, oh.

Feliz Navidad!

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goin_south says on Aug 29, 2008, 18:51:

...another gorgeous colombiana, every time you blink!
I have NEVER found myself to be UNhappy, while in Colombia!
(Recordar: "Siempre_Feliz"???)

Why Colombianitas? Personally... I just don't like pink areolar tissue.

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dwmte7 says on Aug 29, 2008, 19:21:

that's ma man...pour the drinks, friend, i'm thirsty.

dwmte

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goin_south says on Aug 29, 2008, 21:23:

Doug, I have some concentrated organic lime juice, along with a lil coconut rum, just for you, to take the edge off Marinero Yerri...lol

Why Colombianitas? Personally... I just don't like pink areolar tissue.

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dwmte7 says on Aug 30, 2008, 05:01:

southbound...hung one on last night...my son flew in from wash d.c. and bought a bottle of something i'm totally unfamiliar with....crown royal XR ($200.00 can you believe that? there aint nothin they can put in a bottle worth that) anyway, he, and a friend of mine and i drank that and i put on a head i'll remember for a while....

dwmte

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Philly says on Sep 1, 2008, 03:56:

dwmte, I hear what you are saying but most Colombians have not been through what you are talking about. I do not pretend to be an expert on Colombia, been here a few years now, but you went a little extreme on your comments. Unless you live in rural areas, you will never experience most of the things you are talking about.So, that makes people less Colombian?
Last comment, they do not even have a law here that makes kids go to school here. How is it possible the literacy rate is that high? I know a few people here and I would say out of 10 people 4 of them did not finish school.

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dwmte7 says on Sep 1, 2008, 05:23:

on the contrary.....most colombians have, in one way or another. it's like that old saying, "a nation of sheep" thousands of citizens...no voice. it's not jsut as i said, out in the pueblos, fincas, it's in the towns. the common folks are not in power. and really have no voice.

those who live in the tourist areas of the cities, are a different strain of folk. they don't tend the soil, the animals, produce the food, suffer the insurgents....only on the periphery. an occassional bomb somewhere in the city. but outback....big difference. that's colombia. there, folks don't have a clue where foreigners come from, what their lives are like, or for that matter what a "vacation" is all about. they know about hard work, being indentured, doing without....and throughout all that, they do it with a smile. incredible. folks who don't and never will own land and possess nothing more than a few animals/poultry, etc and nothing more...but they'll share what little they have (food) with a stranger. amazing people.

and you're point about education...correct. that statistic which came out of GOD knows where, is wool dreaming.
peace, douglas

dwmte

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manINred says on Sep 1, 2008, 06:08:

Actually Philly, I find dwmte7's comments to be spot on.

Especially this part

"have you been outta the cities and known and felt the tears and fears of the folks who are born and raised there, who put up with the corruption and rip off of the "haves" and the corrupt? who deal with life on a daily basis?"

His point rings extremely true, and this is a conclusion I came to several years before.

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