In the previous post i pondered on the qualifications of the men and women charged with making the big decisions. You would expect these people to be packing some serious qualifications so let's have a look at who from the G20 countries have the educational background to guide us through the choppy waters of yet another world wide recession.
SARKOZY (France) - Masters degree in Private Law
OBAMA (USA) - Degree in Political science, Degree in Law
MERKEL (GERMANY) - Masters degree in Physics
CAMERON (UK) degree in philosophy, politics & economics
HARPER (Canada) - Masters degree in economics
ZUMA (South Africa) - No formal qualifications
FELIPE CALDERON (Mexico) - Masters degree in economics
FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER (Argentina) - Degree in Law
ROUSEFF (Brazil) - Degree in Law
HU JINTAO (China) - Degree in engineering
NAOTO KAN (Japan) - Degree in Law
MANMOHAN SINGH (India) - Masters degree in Economics
SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO (Indonesia) - Military qualifications
MEDVEDEV (Russia) - Degree in law
RECEPP TAYYIP ERDOGAN (Turkey) - Degree in Business Administration
VAN ROMPUY (EU President) - Degree in philosophy, Masters degree in economics
BERLOSCONI (Italy) - Degree in law
GILLARD (Australia) - Degree in law
KING ADBULLAH BIN ABDUL AL SAUD - No formal qualifications
LEE MYUNG-BAK (S Korea) - No formal qualifications
Twenty World leaders and between them they muster 2 qualification in Politics, 5 in Economics and 8 in Law. Helpfully, 4 have no educational qualifications whatsoever.
When you see who is the majority group running things, Lawyers, it explains everything!!
10 comments:
I don't know about the UK, but a majority in the US means more than 50%...
Q
As far as i am aware, it just means the largest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority
q
Seems it depends if it is used with countable nouns or uncountable nouns.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/majority
1 the greater number: in the majority of cases all will go smoothly[ as modifier] :it was a majority decision
Phrases
be in the majority
belong to or constitute the larger group or number
Usage
Strictly speaking, majority should be used with countable nouns to mean ‘the greater number’, as in the majority of cases. Use with uncountable nouns to mean ‘the greatest part’, as in I spent the majority of the day reading, is not considered good standard English, although it is common in informal contexts
so you are saying that old yellowed dictionary that was written in 1963 is better than wikipedia?
q
I don't know about Hanz, but I'd trust the tea leaves before I'd put any faith in wikipedia!
(But by the way, I generally regard the word majority to mean 'more than 50% too'... I'm just sayind that wikipedia doesn't cut any mustard as corroboration).
Wikipedia or the OED? That's like comparing grass to chocolate cake.
As for the meaning of majority, in politics especially, i thought that a majority was the amount of members one party had more than the other. You always hear the news people talking about Labours majority in the commons or the the Conservatives majority.
I'm impressed how there is more concern over the meaning of the word majority and not the fact that lawyers are running things.
WORLD LEADERS AND POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVES LIKE OTHER PEOPLE SHOULD BE:
HONEST
CIVIL
COMPETENT
HAVE A SUITABLE EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION.
SIDNEY COAD WILLIAMS HEALTH AND PEACE ACTIVIST.
And hair, name a bald World leader.
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