In this ranking, the United States has become a "developing country"

A development index issued by the United Nations Sustainable Development Office in July 2022 shows that the United States ranking is much more.

Hong Kong's "Asia Times" article on September 19, original topic: Global ranking, the United States has become "developing countries" that the United States may consider itself a "leader of the free world", but the UN Sustainable Development Office released in July 2022 A development index shows that the US ranking is much more backward. In this ranking, the United States dropped from 32nd to 41st. Its indicator model covers a wide range, including 17 categories or "targets", many of which focus on the environment and fairness. According to this standard, the United States ranks between Cuba and Bulgaria, and both countries are widely considered to be developing countries.

According to the democratic index of Economist, the United States is now considered a "defective democratic country." As a political historian who studies the development of the United States system, I think that these rats are the inevitable results of two issues. Raceism deceived many Americans and deprived them of their due medical insurance, education, economic security and environment. At the same time, with the increasing threat of democracy, the obsession of the "American exception theory" has made the country unable to conduct fair assessment and route correction.

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The ranking of the United Nations Sustainable Development Office is different from the traditional development indicators. It focuses more on the feelings of ordinary people, including the ability they can enjoy clean air and water, not wealth creation.

Therefore, although the huge volume of the US economy occupies an important position in the score, its inequality is also very prominent. By measured by the recognized Gini coefficients and other indicators, the phenomenon of income inequality in the United States has been significantly intensified in the past 30 years. According to the calculation of the OECD, the United States has the largest gap between the rich and the poor in the Seventh Kingdom Group. These results reflect the structural differences in the United States, which is the most obvious among the blacks in the United States.

In the book "Black of Philadelphia" published by scholar Dubiti in 1899, this structural inequality was exposed for the first time.

More than half a century later, Martin Luther Kim also condemned the continuous existence of "another United States" with its unique argument. In order to clarify his own views, Jin mentioned many factors: housing conditions, education, social liquidity and literacy, health and employment. Among all these indicators, the performance of blacks in the United States is worse than whites, as Jin said: "Many people of different backgrounds live in another United States."

In addition, the Democratic Index of Economist now attributed the United States as a "defective democratic country", and the overall score is between Estonia and Chile. To a large extent, due to the division of political and culture, the United States failed to become a "complete democracy" country. This increasingly expanding division is the most obvious on different roads between "Red State" and "Blue State".

Although the analysts of "Economics" praised the transfer of power under the destruction of riots, their report regretted that according to a polls in January 2022, only 55%of Americans believed that Biden won the legal win. Election in 2020.

To solve the problem of poor performance in various global surveys, people must also fight with the concept of "American exception". The "American exception" is a concept that the United States is better than other countries in the world. For a long time, both parties have been promoting this belief whether at home or abroad. "We believe in the" American exceptions ", which is the first sentence of the Republican Party's 2016 and 2020 programs, and it is also Trump's organization principles behind the restoration of" patriotism education "in American schools. The "American exception theory" tends to promote excellence rather than the pursuit of excellence. It aims to encourage Americans to maintain a strong sense of national accomplishment, although more and more evidence shows that the actual situation is the opposite. (Author Catherine Fried, translated by Chen Xin)

Source: Global Times September 23 version 13 article

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