15 Mar '18 18:56>
Originally posted by @great-king-ratCountries by population:
- "They" don't say Fatland; I do. Credit where credit's due, please.
- Where are you getting your data from?
- Using The Olympics (or anything comparable) as some kind of measurement of general health is quite a dumb thing to do. If you'd like to save skin a little bit, just say you weren't being entirely serious.
- Countries with a bigger p ...[text shortened]... es, the gap between Fatland and various other countries in this respect seems to be quite large.
1) China - 1 400 000 000 people.
Olympic medals ~600
2) India - 1 300 000 000 people.
Olympic medals ~30
3) United States - 330 000 000 people
Olympic medals ~ 2500
This doesn't take into account that China didn't participate between 1956-1976 which is roughly 1/5th of the games held, but it comes absolutely nowhere close to the US in terms of medals even if the data was compensated for China's attendance. On top of that, its population is 4.5 times larger.
Similar story for India.
Nobody is using Olympic medals as a measure of general health. Obesity is a problem in America, but naming a nation based on a stereotype is wrong. Imagine if we called Germany "Naziland" or Russia "vodkaland" - it's just silly and not particularly funny or witty either.