Found some interesting info here:
Economic mobility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility
It describes the US and the UK as being at the low end of economic mobility between generations. France, Germany, Canada and the Scandinavian countries are put at the high end.
In the case of Germany, Canada, and the Scandinavian countries I might hypothesize that this has to with the fact they are more ethnically uniform than is the US and the UK. This hypothesis admittedly presumes that there is some discriminatory aspects to the lower mobility in the US and the UK.
Part of the justification for this view is the fact of the higher mobility in France, which does have a large immigrant and minority population but has long been thought to be more "liberal" in its treatment of minorities.
However, I would like to see some data that compares the social mobility between countries broken down that compares the mobility for each racial group.
Flame » in reply to re: Okay, now it's getting silly.
About economic mobility.
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- Conservatives as fictional villains
- Examples? Sure
- Er, you do get the meaing of the word"fictional" don't you?
- Actually, that's a very perceptive analysis.
- This can all actually be worked out objectively.
- re: Examples? Sure
- You might have it backwards
- It's not the fictional villains I worry about. (n/t)
- Examples? Sure