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Originally Posted by NCB
I'm not marketing anything, nor am I trashing the original post and it's stats. I'm just stating the obvious that despite all this, people are killing themselves to get here. That's all.
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I'm not sure why that point is somehow meaningful to you.
There are two aspects which would have to be considered to understand your point:
1- Marketing. America is marketed as the greatest place on Earth. Tide is marketed as the best laundry detergent. Marketing does not make it so.
2- If no one at all was trying to get into the U.S., no one would believe that America is better than where they currently live. Is the whole world trying to get into the U.S.? Obviously not. So it then goes to show that America is not better than the whole world. That, oh I don't know, a few hundred thousand people or a few million people are actively trying to get into the U.S. is an exceptionally small piece of the pie.
Couple this small pie portion of people attempting to move here with the marketing (based primarily on turn of the 20th century immigration policies) and your point dissolves into nothingness.
The point you could make about the list is that, although the U.S. might be lower in one category in comparison to Cuba, that does not mean Cuba is not lower in a dozen others. But even that would be a weak point as the list is not suggesting that Cuba is, overall, a better place than the U.S. But it is likely that other countries are, overall, better places than the U.S. by virtue of overall higher marks on more of the items on the list.
As an aside, if the U.K. or Sweden or France or even Russia were in close proximity to Cuba, I bet we'd see a rather proportionate flow of Cubans to those countries as with the U.S. The raft trip across the Atlantic is dangerous, I hear.