Which is better country to live in: Canada or Norway?
Depends on the individual. Norway is much smaller and the local language is much tougher and less commonly spoken throughout the world. Both are similar politically and both are dominated to a certain extent by their more powerful neighbors (the US and Sweden), but maintain their own charming pride and independence all the same. EU citizenship is pretty powerful and a good motivator to go to Norway between the two... if you can manage to learn the language. If you're going to learn a Scandinavian language, though, I'd go with Swedish. It's also spoken in Finland and generally there's a much bigger population, plus Stockholm is one of my favorite cities in the world (at least in the summer, their long winter nights are the reason for the high suicide rate, but that's a problem in Norway and Canada too). Personally, I'll stick with the US, but to each his own. US Citizenship is about as powerful as EU citizenship, but it's harder for immigrants to get it. It takes years to get a Green Card and years more for full citizenship. Their kids, however, are born as Americans. EDIT: I met a girl from Norway once in the airport in France on my way to see Sweden for the first time. I accidentally crushed her dreams of being taken seriously as a nation when it came up that my home town, New York City, had nearly twice the population of her whole country. I felt a little badly about that.
Who were the first people to live in the United States?
No, Africans were brought over during the Slave trade. The first Humans to live in the USA came from the North east of Asia (Eastern Russia) and crossed into Alaska, genetics also showed that humans may have island hoped from nearby indonesia all the way to South America. Also, archaeological evidence even suggests that some early Europeans sailed over to North America along the ice, they have found the same European spear points in North America, i think genetics may even show support it. The very first Europeans we known for a fact that arived in North America were the Vikings which arived around 1000 AD lead by Viking Leif Ericson (NOT Christopher Columbas) , which i believe were intending to visit Greenland, but the wind blew them to North America and they made a settlement there. The Vikings came from Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark (Scandanavia in Northern Europe). They called American Vinland, and the Viking Settlment they found could be one of many. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland The first Europeans to arrive in large numbers were the English. Interesting story, The first English settlement in what is now the USA, a couple hundred English moved to a new colony they built in the late 1500s, When supply ships failed to arrive on time, when next visited, the settlement was abandoned, when the English returned many years later, they found the Indian tribes around that area knew how to speak English, were familiar with Christianity and had some European facial features, suggesting the missing English had mixed with the Indians. I think genetics backs this up too. Its known as the lost colony.
Why is it bad for the UK that they left the EU when Norway and Switzerland never joined and they are doing just fine?
It is a serious question, and it deserves a serious response.It boils down to two things.Norway and Switzerland are just fine because of their internal culture and politics, which is very different to the UK.When Norway discovered its North Sea oil, it nationalised its oil resources, and set up rules on how the surplus from the oil resource can be invested or spent for the public good. It is rich today primarily because of this. The UK privatised its oil resources, so while some got very rich from it, it’s difficult to estimate how much of it actually trickled down to the common people.On a per capita basis, Switzerland is the most industrial country in the world. In my Swiss apartment I can find everything from rubbish bins, toilet seats, to fridges and dish washers that were made in Switzerland. The local business model for manufacturing has often been “make one thing, get good at it, and make it for one hundred years”. The same cannot be said for the UK, which has been largely de-industrialised since the 1980s.Staying single is not the same as getting a divorce. The UK has been a part of the EU (or its precursor) since the 1970s. Similar to a marriage, where two parties live together, get used to each other’s presence, boundaries, and idiosyncrasies, the EU defined a lot of rules of engagement between UK and other EU countries. To break away from this relationship is not the same as never joined this relationship in the first place. New rules needs to be set up for every previous relation that was taken for granted. For the UK to go on as business as normal with EU after Brexit is akin to a couple living together after a divorce. While it can be done, I know many would rather not have this arrangement.Norway and Switzerland on the other hand, have never entered into this relationship. So they are not going to go through this phase of separation and renegotiation.Many believes that for Brexit to truly work, in the economic sense, the EU would need to disintegrate. This is what many of the “leave” campaigners were counting on, in the words of UKIP’s Nigel Farage:“… a collection of sovereign nations living together, trading together….”However, the likelihood of this EU disintegration is dependent on the rest of the EU member states.
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Are you an American that has moved to Denmark? Do you like it? How was the transition?
Thinking about moving there, but it will have to wait till I am done with college, but I would like to know why you moved? Do you like it there? The good stuff and the bad. Plus I am thinking of buying the Rosetta Stone language learning program, anybody have an opinion about it.
I feel stupid talking english with an Norwegian accent?
You want to speak English without an accent, and then almost immediately afterward state that you want to speak like an American? Outrageous! They are the ones with an accent, RP is the correct way of speaking English! Arrrgghhh! *British rage* Anyway, I highly doubt an accent will keep you from getting into Harvard or any other Ivy League university. I didn't apply for them myself, realizing my chances of getting in were extremely minor (they only let in some 15% of applicants or something like that), but I did go to quite prestigious NYCU for some time, before I moved to Norway. I got into NYCU even though I had a horrible Yorkshire accent and people had trouble understanding me despite speaking the same language. And I still, after three years in Norway, have to concentrate all the time to keep the English accent out of my Norwegian, which is very hard. But I'm only doing that because I'm such a perfectionist. Trust me, the Yanks have heard lots of accents that are much stronger than the average Norwegian accent. No worries. You had a couple of errors in your text, as well, but nothing major. I don't think your oral will be much worse. But I'm interested in how you are going to pay for one of those ridiculously expensive American colleges or universities. You are aware that the Norwegian government only covers the cost of a few dozen universities in the States (and the only of them that is good is Berkeley), and only with up to 40.000 Norwegian kroner? Only from my few semesters at NYCU I racked up tens of thousands in loans. PS: Oxford and Cambridge are way better than Harvard, contrary to what the burgerlovers claim.