Read THIS!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/12/40-maps-that-explain-the-world/

2. Makes me glad to be from the US. But Canada is friendlier to outsiders.

6. The amount of emotion people feel correlates to the country they are from? That's fascinating. Why would the least emotional people live in Russia?

7. Ugh colonialism.

8. Hm. the U.S. is relatively tolerant of racial diversity.

9. The U.S. is less ethnically diverse than I would have thought.

11. ha ha ha ha ha The Texas Republic. They wish.

12. So not a lot of countries hate America. But a few do. China seems ambivalent to it.

15. Makes me sad. Death penalty for homosexuality?

18. Russia also has a cigarette problem? WHO WOULD WANT TO LIVE THERE WITH SIBERIAN TIGERS AND FROSTBITE?

19. Okay, so what are Canada, Australia, a bunch of countries in the EU, and countries I'd have to look up in the Middle East doing so right that America can't figure out? In terms of Economic Inequality.

20. Shame.

22. if I have kids, i'm moving to Canada. it is also better than the US in terms of places to be a mother.

25. This is embarrassing but I don't know the difference between civil law and common law. should look that up...

26. eeeeeek to live in Israel would be scary

27. The US seems safe except for Alaska...NOOOOOOOOO! Don't get KODIAK!

28 is pretty atrocious. The Child Poverty Rate in America is at 20-25%, the most significant percentage of developed nations.

30. is pretty funny. Only Great Britain thinks pretty badly of the European Union.

34. China feels pretty good about the national economy.

35. Makes my brain hurt. Performance Studies major. Not Poli Sci.

36. Fascinating. 40-49.9% of Chinese people label themselves atheists.

37. Hm Muslims in Russia are not so much in favor of democratic leadership. Wonder why that is?

39. Honor killings exist? Killing someone for sleeping around out of wedlock? Rough.

40. Woah

I just learned more about the world, economics, political science, religion, and whodawhatnots than in my entire FOUR YEARS at Northwestern. Here's to reading online news. Once I left Medill, I went downhill. No longer!