[lbo-talk] South Ossetia

[Chris Doss]

I assume by "leave" you mean "have South Ossetia become part of Russia." That doesn't really parse, because Russia does not have one unitary culture. South Ossetians want to unify with North Ossetia, which has a very different culture from Moscow oblast, say. And Ossetians are very different culturally from Georgians, in fact.

I have no idea what Georgia's Gini is, but really, I don't think it's possible to make meaningful comparisons of this sort between an area smaller than Rhode Island and an area the size of the Moon. It's like comparing inequality inside my famly and inequality in New York City.

--- On Tue, 8/12/08, Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com> wrote:

 Russia may be richer,
> but I bet it also
> has greater inequality.
> 
> This line of thought is off topic from the stew of the
> current fiasco but I
> wonder if the Ossetians wanting to leave knowwhat they are
> infor.
> 
> DC
>