Global Living Standards and Gaps
There might be a religion that only teaches what to do in burial service.
But, religion is to cover living of people, since a man lives for the glory of the God.
Yet, as more and more people have come to disconnect their living from religion, rule of wealth have prevailed, so that rich European/American Christians do not feel any compassion toward poor people in the world.
Indeed, as more and more people have come to disconnect their living from religion, rule of wealth have prevailed, so that rich Muslims do not feel any compassion toward poor people in their country and other Islamic nations.
It is time for something revolutionary to happen outside Europe/America or in the Islamic world, though it seems that the time for China and India is yet to come.
PART I: Human Development Index (2010)
The world is divided into European-race dominant countries and European-race-exploited countries.
The exception is Japan.
South Korea was long under protection of Japan. Singapore and Hong Kong are a kind of city nations that functioned as a center of commerce and trade for profits of European nations.
Yet, it is interesting to see where Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and Yemen are positioned.
This is a list of all countries by Human Development Index as included in a United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report released on 4 November 2010, compiled on the basis of estimates for 2010.
Rank Country HDI
1 Norway 0.938
2 Australia 0.937
3 New Zealand 0.907
4 United States 0.902
5 Ireland 0.895
6 Liechtenstein 0.891
7 Netherlands 0.890
8 Canada 0.888
9 Sweden 0.885 1
10 Germany 0.885
11 Japan 0.884
12 South Korea 0.877
13 Switzerland 0.874
14 France 0.872
15 Israel 0.872
16 Finland 0.871
17 Iceland 0.869
18 Belgium 0.867
19 Denmark 0.866
20 Spain 0.863
21 Hong Kong 0.862
22 Greece 0.855
23 Italy 0.854
24 Luxembourg 0.852
25 Austria 0.851
26 United Kingdom 0.849
27 Singapore 0.846
28 Czech Republic 0.841
29 Slovenia 0.828
30 Andorra 0.824
31 Slovakia 0.818
32 United Arab Emirates 0.815
33 Malta 0.815
34 Estonia 0.812
35 Cyprus 0.810
36 Hungary 0.805
37 Brunei 0.805
38 Qatar 0.803
39 Bahrain 0.801
40 Portugal 0.795
41 Poland 0.795
42 Barbados 0.788
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43 Bahamas 0.784
44 Lithuania 0.783
45 Chile 0.783
46 Argentina 0.775
47 Kuwait 0.771
48 Latvia 0.769
49 Montenegro 0.769
50 Romania 0.767
51 Croatia 0.767
52 Uruguay 0.765
53 Libya 0.755
54 Panama 0.755
55 Saudi Arabia 0.752
56 Mexico 0.750
57 Malaysia 0.744
58 Bulgaria 0.743
59 Trinidad and Tobago 0.736
60 Serbia 0.735
61 Belarus 0.732
62 Costa Rica 0.725
63 Peru 0.723
64 Albania 0.719
65 Russia 0.719
66 Kazakhstan 0.714
67 Azerbaijan 0.713
68 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.710
69 Ukraine 0.710
70 Iran 0.702
71 Macedonia 0.701
72 Mauritius 0.701
73 Brazil 0.699
74 Georgia 0.698
75 Venezuela 0.696
76 Armenia 0.695
77 Ecuador 0.695
78 Belize 0.694
79 Colombia 0.689
80 Jamaica 0.688
81 Tunisia 0.683
82 Jordan 0.681
83 Turkey 0.679
84 Algeria 0.677
85 Tonga 0.677
86 Fiji 0.669
87 Turkmenistan 0.669
88 Dominican Republic 0.663
89 China 0.663
90 El Salvador 0.659 0.004
91 Sri Lanka 0.658
92 Thailand 0.654
93 Gabon 0.648
94 Suriname 0.646
95 Bolivia 0.643
96 Paraguay 0.640
97 Philippines 0.638
98 Botswana 0.633
99 Moldova 0.623
100 Mongolia 0.622
101 Egypt 0.620
102 Uzbekistan 0.617
103 Micronesia, Federated States of 0.614
104 Guyana 0.611
105 Namibia 0.606
106 Honduras 0.604
107 Maldives 0.602
108 Indonesia 0.600
109 Kyrgyzstan 0.598
110 South Africa 0.597
111 Syria 0.589 0.003
112 Tajikistan 0.580
113 Vietnam 0.572
114 Morocco 0.567
115 Nicaragua 0.565
116 Guatemala 0.560
117 Equatorial Guinea 0.538
118 Cape Verde 0.534
119 India 0.519
120 Timor-Leste 0.502
121 Swaziland 0.498
122 Laos 0.497 0.007
123 Solomon Islands 0.494
124 Cambodia 0.494
125 Pakistan 0.490
126 Congo 0.489
127 São Tomé and Príncipe 0.488
128 Kenya 0.470
129 Bangladesh 0.469
130 Ghana 0.467
131 Cameroon 0.460
132 Burma 0.451
133 Yemen 0.439
134 Benin 0.435
135 Madagascar 0.435
136 Mauritania 0.433
137 Papua New Guinea 0.431
138 Nepal 0.428
139 Togo 0.428
140 Comoros 0.428
141 Lesotho 0.427
142 Nigeria 0.423
143 Uganda 0.422
144 Senegal 0.411
145 Haiti 0.404
146 Angola 0.403
147 Djibouti 0.402
148 Tanzania 0.398
149 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index
PART II: Walled World
The truth of the world can be manifested in some maps.
(Click to enlarge.)http://td-architects.eu/?id=30
But, the situation can be changed.
Russia with crude oil and natural gas fields, China with huge manufacturing capability, India with a great potential for mega market, the Islamic world still with world dominant crude oil and natural gas fields, and Southeast Asia with a steady trend of industrialization can narrow the gap with the Western European race dominating world.
However, there are two factors that have accelerated this movement from the outside.
1) Industrial sectors of Japan and the U.S.
2) Wall Street and the City
And, there are two camps guiding the trend within each emerging country and region.
1) Democracy pursuing power
2) Hegemony driven political power
If any hegemony driven political power of a rising country, say, China, ties up with Wall Street and the City, such a country would cause eventually a big trouble even to the U.S.
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The ideal that all the people should be rich or not be poor is not understood by rich men in the world.
The ideal that every single man should be rich or not be poor is not understood by rich men regardless of their religion.
Rich men are simply looking for a chance to become richer or keep their status at a higher level. They do not like poor people to get rich, since their share of wealth might be reduced.
Europe is rich but it has sacrificed Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
America is rich but it has sacrificed native Americans, African Americans, and other non-European Americans.
Yet, to realize the ideal that all the people should be rich or not be poor in the world, democracy is at least needed in Islamic nations. It is so, since democracy in Europe and America has improved living of non-European-race citizens in both the regions.
Nonetheless, military clashes in Libya should be stopped. Peaceful voting should be carried out to elect a new leader of Libya, since Libya 's Human Development Index is higher than Mexico, a neighboring country to the U.S.
(News on Japan: Japan to launch 'Hayabusa' bullet train
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110304/tc_afp/japantransporttrainshinkansen_20110304211904)
Mar 3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.