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Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]
It depends how you look at it. In terms of GDP per capita you're in
10th position in the world.
You forget that the US is also the third-most-populous country (and third-largest depending on how you look at it.) Other countries with populations that are larger (India, China) or closer in size (Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Russia) are nowhere near as close in GDP per capita. It's quite a feat to be that large and to have a GDP per capita that good.
If America had to pay off all their debts, where would they be?
Debt per person in the US is comparable to the rest of the world, and, in some cases, better. Plus, a good deal of debt is (or was) owned by Americans. The whole rational for a large deficit was, "We owe it to ourselves." I guess that's changing now, and China is buying up a lot of the debt.
As for consumer debt, it's actually a fraction of the people that have large amounts of debt (in the form of credit cards.) Plus, a great deal of personal debt (owned by a household) is in the form of medical bills. It's something like 60% of all personal bankruptcies are because of medical bills.
Well, I said in a way it is discrimination :)
No, it's not. Poles are only holding themselves back in the case of visas. It's the failure of the Polish people in having such a high rejection rate, not because of some "American bias" against them.
It should be noted that the US has the largest Polish diaspora in the world, and a great deal of the people there are proud of their Polish heritage. Any "discrimination" is largely imaginary, and the State Department's rules are not there to specifically restrict Poles.
Plus, I just found out, that Canada is totally tapped out of work visas for Poles (damn quotas!!!)
