All the talk of sub-prime mortgages triggers the thoughts that in England there are so many ‘Sub-Prime Females’.
Why is it that the girls I meet in England are so often outclassed by the girls I met in Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic (and especially – Sweden).
The Swedish girl I met at Brno airport was so feminine and classy. As were the Spanish hotties working the bar in Galicia and the Czech Prague princess who I re-met after last year’s week together. Sweden and northern Poland were prime talent areas. Those continental beauties!
But on the streets of England I find sub-prime looks and/or sub-prime attitude.
Why is that? Just the genetic throw of the dice?
Do capital cities attract the hot talent and the ruder attitudes?
Do richer areas produce spoilt people more often? Do richer areas attract surplus advertiser attention and so people over-indulge and get greedy for things they don’t need?
For men to be attracted to cold places like Sweden did the girls evolve to be pretty because only the really pretty girls got the attention and resources of new male stock who would not otherwise be attracted to go there in the past due to the region’s geographical isolation and coldness. Hence the pretty genes were more likely to be passed on. Silly thoughts, I’m sure but they run through my brain.
I should read Jared Diamond’s book ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’. He talks about the development of cultures historically.
I think these thoughts half in jest but you can’t be too sure. Mmmm…
Check out Jared Diamond’s other book – called something like Why Sex Is Fun… I just bought it… Haven’t read it yet. I did read Guns, Germs… and it does not answer the question you posed. But it’s an interesting book regardless.
To sum up Guns for you – “development” is a product of food production (farmable grains and domesticable animals) which frees up classes of people to specialize. This along with other natural resources (like metal ore) and geographical ease of travel (to assist in communication between cultures – e.g., the east-west axis of Eurasia) explains why certain cultures were more “advanced” technologically than others.
However, I’ve spent time in so-called undeveloped, so-called simple cultures – and they are advanced in terms of things like enjoying life and appreciating shit…