Typical of the attitude in this country. Zero perspective outside our own time and playground and when presented with such, deflect with crass comments and jokes.

Tell you what, forget looking at the rest of the world. Look at America during the Great Depression and then talk to me of poverty.

>>The 1 as compared to the other 4 of 5 is the comparison "in America". The idea that 1 in 5 (20%) is bad is in comparison to what?
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>A duck! No wait, it is still not about other countries. 1 on 5 of *us* is not something *we* should be feel good about among *ourselves*. It's not about what our neighbors think. However, there is a cheap way available any time you wanna feel better, yeah, head out to Zimbabwe and flaunt it -- if you're a schadenfreude kinda guy. But... speaking of schadenfreude... maybe avoid Germany, for example, because you'd just feel bad all over again.
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>>>Yeah, now I see your logic. So if...
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>>>>The explicit argument was that 1 in 5 are poor in America.
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>>>And that...
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>>>>The implicit argument is that this is a bad statistic.
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>>>That's because the answer to...
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>>>>Compared to what?
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>>>Is to each other "in America".
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>>>You deduce that it...
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>>>>Seems a reasonable assumption that the comparison is to other countries in the world.
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>>Regardless how funny Monty Python may be, they're irrelevant to the discussion.