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by pchristensen 5739 days ago
PIIGS - the countries whose economies boomed and now are crashing so hard they're threatening to bring down the EU.
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paulobsf 5738 days ago
As a Portuguese citizen I consider that acronym as offensive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGS_(economics)#Controversy

I think that we all agree that generalizations are the sign of narrow-minded individuals...

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pchristensen 5738 days ago
No offense intended - I'm an American citizen so I don't have tons of room to talk!

PIGS is an acronym - it just makes it easy to remember. That's the only reason I can name all 5 countries. No one things that citizens of those 5 countries are swine, just like they don't think that citizens of the booming BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) are dumb.

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