Summary:
Every single person has a dream to live in a safest country, and there are a lot more elements other than crime rate we should look into to determine whether a country is safe enough or not, such like natural disaster, corruption, terrorism, economical crisis, culture and more. Further the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is issuing Global Peace Index (GPI) each year since 2007 which is a measurement tool to measure nation’s peacefulness. Based on such index comes out a list of top 10 safest countries in the world 2015.
The top ten list is as follow: 10 # Singapore. 9 # Norway. 8 # Japan. 7 # Canada. 6 # Georgia. 5 # New Zealand. 4 # Austria. 3 # Denmark. 2 # Taiwan. 1 # Iceland.
Comments:
As somebody who was born and raised in Taiwan, there was a time that I had this naive thought of walking on the street at night in every country around the globe is totally safe, just like back home. However, as I grew older and started to understand things, I finally realized how fortunate I am to be one of the R.O.C. citizens.
When I was living in the States, all of my friends warned me about the areas of the cities which I should never set my foot in, and tell me why I shouldn't take the buses for there might be dangerous people on them; when I was in Amsterdam, I saw two Chinses guys walked toward me and my girlfriend with one of the evilest smile I have ever seen; when I was in Paris, Brusells, and Prague, I fear the locals because I've been told that they have this rate of snathing and stealing, and also because I really did saw someone's mobil was stollen right in front of my face. Still, There are a lot of countries and cities that I've been to are able to make a tourist even like me feel safe enough, such like Vienna, Soul, and pretty much every cities I have been to in Japan. Which is why I am very proud of Taiwan, as the only other Asian country, have beaten Japan which is only the 8th of the list by taking 2th. Taiwan is a beautiful place to live in almost every aspects, I sincerely hope that this news and the newest list can make many of the Taiwanese gain confidence of our precious country.
