What's a dissimilarity between advanced countries and a backward country ?

shsong21 · #1 11-02-2006, 10:28 PM

What's a dissimilarity between advanced countries and a backward country ?
What's an advanced country ?
I need ur answer.

Parisok · #2 11-03-2006, 12:04 AM

An excellent Question!
I will give you my opinion on what it is to me but it may be a little off from a book answer.
I believe to be an "advanced country" it involves level of industrial, technological, and social advancement.

Industrial means that you have industries within the country that supply products to outside nations that are within a balance of what you import.

Technological is the expertise level of the engineers and workers to produce advanced products or ideas.

Social means the education level with high school being mandatory and college available to all. This also infers a balance of economic & education level between rich and poor to allow all to participate in society on a close to level playing field.

This is an ideal description for me and not one that fits all advanced countries.

A description of a backward country is one that the majority of the population is poor, uneducated with poor infrastructure.

Turk · #3 11-03-2006, 01:00 PM

I think about this kind of thing differently. The terms advanced and backwards are relative when using them to describe the over-all state of a country. In other words, there are many industrially advanced countries that are socially backwards compared to the social weave of a country that may be mostly agricultural. Agricultural based societies often have deep rooted, family based social systems whereas, a technologically advanced society may tend to have broken social support systems due to breakdown and separation of families etc,... Its not always a black and white answer. I guess it depends on how you define social advancement. If you think of social advancement in terms of over-all happiness and little crime, then I think you can get different answers.

Parisok · #4 11-03-2006, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Turk

I think about this kind of thing differently. The terms advanced and backwards are relative when using them to describe the over-all state of a country. In other words, there are many industrially advanced countries that are socially backwards compared to the social weave of a country that may be mostly agricultural. Agricultural based societies often have deep rooted, family based social systems whereas, a technologically advanced society may tend to have broken social support systems due to breakdown and separation of families etc,... Its not always a black and white answer. I guess it depends on how you define social advancement. If you think of social advancement in terms of over-all happiness and little crime, then I think you can get different answers.

I agree that you can not have it as a cut and dry thing. I do believe that by the current standards that economics, education and social advancement are part of the measuring stick. there is no set solution as what works for Japan lets say would not work for Poland. Some confuse the abilities of a country with the political ruling of the country. An example is 2 advanced countries are Japan and China yet the political structure is different. It is a world socioal/economic standing that really ranks a country as being advanced. I also agree that it seems the more economically/technologically advance the more the structurre of family and socitial support seems to slip. I do not believe that having a Nuke makes you an advanced country or a world power. It is the combination of economic power, general education level and social advancement that contributes. But it is all opinion and in this case just mine.

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