[solaris152000]

They are not 'Western' Societies.

[T-hawk]

There's some no-true-Scotsman going on there. If one defines anywhere with more poverty than the US as not western, then by definition the US will have the most poverty of western societies.

[jjoonathan]

One does not have to play with definitions to make this look bad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#mediaviewer/Fil...

[vilhelm_s]

They are, according to many definitions of "Western".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world#Modern_definitio...