I think ours is education (South Africa), because of Apartheid, we are missing a generation gap who where not educated and thus in unskilled jobs, where they have to support there families and send (pay) there kids to school. Heidi
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I'm in the UK - our government also is giving a high priority to education at the moment part of the reason is that so many people are dropping out early or not going on to higher education, therefore there are more people trying to go for unskilled / low skilled work, when we are a country which traditional has professional / highly skilled work. Such as finance, insurance etc. \n\none of the topics the government keeps going on about at the moment is anti social behaviour (kids messing about, harassing people and vandalising, and drugs) but the crime rates aren't actually that bad comparatively. \n\nA topic that is closer to me is the NHS (National Health Service) is in a bit of debt (1% of its budget) so is now making people redundant and has frozen new vacancies. Which as I am just about to finish at uni as a mental health nurse and that i will have to go to the private section to try and get a job! But there aren't that many to go to! \n\nI might be moving to South Africa soon anyway!
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I refuse to pay for something that people I didn't know did 200 years ago. The people now alive should receive nothing... what harm was done them? The issue you mentioned in Namibia is totally different in that some of the victims of WWII are still alive or their immediate descendants. You list slavery as the reasons African nations are so poor.... check on the numbers of slaves that were actually taken from Africa.... it's much less than you think. The reason African nations are so poor is the lack of emphasis given to education then and now.
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Being white...I understand your frustration. Being from South-Africa...it is worse here believe me!!!!! BUT, thinks won't change that easily. Yes maybe you were not part of those days were they really suffered...but they did. For you it's in the past. For them it's still stories of family members that were treated brutally. Yes and maybe they always take advantage of this situation...but it is their advantage to take...because what white people did to them was beyond inhuman, and because of our foolishness, we will suffer a loooooong time
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Germany,coz i had read somewhere that it has literacy rate 100%...USA or UK is also a good option!
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The World has 4gotten that we're all part of 1 big family.\nWe have 4gotten how 2 co-exist 4 the sake of religious difference & a blatant lack of education.
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There are a couple of issues here and you have hit one of them on the head.\n\nThe knock on effect is that having sourced the workers from overseas there will be no jobs for School leavers at all, so it's onto Uni or the dole. Note the recent policy change announcement to keep Kids in school till 18!\n\nThe other is that the domestic birth rate is still falling, I believe in part due to the requirement for a second income in order to afford a mortgage these days.
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The help to needed kids.\nLook on some good asociation that take care of children in poor countries, i'm sure this is the most persuasive subject, but besides, maybe you will really get someone to get interested. \nThere is so much kids in the world that needs our help.
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I'm from SA and am totally against Apartheid! that's the reason why the country seems like it's going down! if there were never a Apartheid Regime and everyone had equal opportunity and education, South Africa would be a first world country!
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Education shouldn't be dumbed down to answer to the demands of a generation that has been abusing so many things now. Students need to work harder if they really want to get something out of it. I mean, we go to school to learn. Many seem to be forgetting that nowadays.
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Education is a privilege; just as is driving, having a job, or owning a house.\nSchools in America are available for anyone who can muster up the minimal effort required to attend; yet there are many who consider it a burden to do so.  It really isn't that hard to get an education anywhere in the Western world.  Go to the places I've been in the Third World; the people there routinely risk their lives to get what we take for granted.\nNo one has a "right" to force others to provide an education for anyone.\nPerhaps if we Americans concentrated more effort on our responsibilities (including doing our best in school), and took less for granted, rather than creating new rights du jour every day out of thin air, we would do better at things that require an education.
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Well, in the grand scheme of history, we've barely batted an eyelid since Dr. King's time.  However, pointing out one statistic to prove your point is statistically flawed and border-line misleading.  Many more blacks are addending university and obtaining graduate degrees, starting businesses, earning comparable wages (to whites), voting and otherwise become active citizens than they were in the 1960's.  Further still, this particular problem is the result of many black families not having a strong lineage of educated, successful family members to build supportive communities.  Had the black college attendence rate been in 1966 what it is in 2006, then we would be talking about a very different story.  Give it time.  Why are Americans so impatient ;)
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i think maybe it's a case of 'the oppressed ending up as oppressors', kinda like the theory that says that abused kids are more likely to become abusers as adults. still, SA tells us they're the rainbow nation so i don't get what's going on there. or maybe SA is not the problem at all and it's simply human nature no matter from where. that after too much abuse we humans naturally try to put abuse on others once we get some power. i dunno.
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Definately Canada.  We are in the middle of a boom right now and there are jobs everywhere!  Alberta is the place to be, we have the oilfields here, the mountains are right next door, plenty of farms....very versatile.
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Let's look at it within the context of class warfare. In this view, the upper classes will oppose things which strengthen the lower and middle classes. \n\nIn a system where a free public education qualifies people for middle class jobs, the lower and middle classes are gaining strength. In a system where families must pay for higher education to improve their status, these gains are slowed, or even stopped.\n\nIn short, the powerful have worked to place education beyond the reach of ordinary people because uneducated people are less likely to effectively challenge their power.
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Private, charter, or home schooled.  Parents don't have enough say in what the public schools are teaching because the federal government is too involved in education.  Public education went downhill after Jimmy "Mr. Peanut" Carter pulled the cabinet position of secretary of education out of his ass.  It needs to be done away with and parents should take some responsibility in what the schools teach their kids.
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I would guess the US, especially if you take into account the last 200 years of people from varied backgrounds coming here to live.  Where i live, the dominant ethnicities are norwegian, swedish, finnish, chippewa, german, and slovak.  also african, chinese, and sri lankan.  and this is just in a small metro area of 100,000.
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South Africa seems to be doing OK.\n\nIf a nation isn't in turmoil it's not going to make the news, so you have to be pretty knowledgeable in geography and politics to know which of the 160 nations or so are not in the news and are predominantly black.