Guess Who Is The World's #1?

[threegee]

...in Science and Technology?

http://www.goodcountry.org/overall

 

Now all we need to do is to focus on our poor score in "International Peace and Security" Tony!

[Malcolm Robinson]

Aye and the valididty of that gets blown out of the water when you look at number 1 for culture! LOL

[threegee]

Look, you get a certain choice of the best of two (maybe more), and some terribly good chocolates thrown into the mix!

 

...members of each of the two main linguistic groups generally make their cultural choices from within their own community, and then, when going beyond, the Flemish draw intensively from both the English-speaking culture (which dominates sciences, professional life and most news media) and the Netherlands, whereas French-speakers focus on cultural life in France and elsewhere in the French-speaking world, and less outside

 

Nice people the Flemings!   Ironic that a country that can't make up its mind about anything at all is first home to the EU - predicated on the notion that everyone can make their collective mind up on absolutely everything!

[Smudgeinthebudge]

The marking system in general for the good country index is worth a look at if you want to see what other countries think of yours. It is an organisation set up to help improve the lives of people everywhere and a little bit of altruism can be a nice thing. Instead of looking at political and nationalist theories to explain the markings we should try to increase our individual scores in all aspects of the chart. It is a better one to win than the olympics, world cup or european tiddlywinks championship.