Without looking up the answer, which country do you think is larger by land area?
Without checking, which has a higher population?
Which country would you say you know more about?
Which country do you think produces more raw materials / primary products?
Which country do you think has more active duty armed forces?
Which country has had more coups and overthrows since WWI?
Which country has the largest gold mine in the world, mostly owned & controlled by a US corporation?
Which currently has a seat on the UN Security Council?
Which once had the largest non-ruling Communist Party on the planet?
This one should be easy.
Which has the lower average life expectancy?
Which one has the greater GDP (as much as that metric sucks)?
In which is it illegal for the head of state to be a communist?
Does one of these countries appear in your imagination as more dangerous, more dirty, or otherwise worse off?
Last but not least, which country do you think produces more profit for Japanese corporations? (I don't actually know this one, it would probably be a really complex study, so I'm just looking for guesses and critical thinking.)
Answer key below....
land: Indo
pop: Indo
raw materials: almost certainly Indo
active duty: Indo
coups/overthrows: Indo
gold mine: Indo
UN Sec: surprisingly, Indo
past communist party: Indo
shorter life: Indo by a long shot
greater GDP: Japan (!)
illegal to be commie head of state: Indo
which is more dangerous: who knows!
which produces more profit for Japanese corpos: my *guess* is Indo by virtue of *cough* the answers to the above questions
So what are some conclusions we can draw from these answers - especially the personal responses and guesses?
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