A application about UK’a quality life UK, as a developed country, undoubtedly has a high quality of life and owns important international influence because of its strong economy and military. How does one island country become so powerful? The suitable environment, democratic politics system and colorful culture constitute the great country. UK’s nice environment not only be good for local people’s quality of life, but also influences the economic development of UK. First of all, UK has ample natural resources, the strategic resource played important part in UK’s history. For example, British took advantage of the abundant coal and oil finished its industrial revolution quickly, right now, UK’s CO2 emissions has been declining because it has finished its industrial transformation. It means UK has entered into era of science and technology, they do not need to spend much money on solving the CO2 pollutions, they can focus on the development of healthcare or education to improve British quality of life. In addition, the suitable environment is good for people’s health, so every year there are lots of aliens moving to UK because of the comfortable weather. For example, over 590000 immigrants moved to UK in 2010, but only 339000 British moved out UK, so there are about 252000 net migration came to UK in 2010(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15868793). It means UK’s high quality of life indeed attracted other countries’ people, also, these immigrants inevitably brought vast assets to UK, they use their money to invest UK local companies, it can made British have more job opportunities. The natural environment provided ample resources for UK’s economic development, otherwise, this suitable environment attracts many rich people to migrate to UK, this phenomenon increases the society wealth of UK. Then people can have more money to focus on their healthcare and education, also, UK government can have much fund to sustain society fairness, therefore UK’s quality of life could be higher. The perfect politics system has good effect on the development of UK. First of all, the government officers are voted by citizens directly, it stand for the will of people. This politics system can make sure the government’s approach could be accepted by most of people. In Democracy the governmental power is transferred by counting secret votes during elections. To accept such transfer people and parties must be 100% sure that electoral results are fair and square: doubts about the legitimacy of the winner can damage the political life of the country and even bring riots and revolutions(http://www.electronic-vote.org). It means the government leader must be elected by citizens, if someone was found cheating or be doubted the legitimacy by the populace, it will cause serious political troubles, therefore the government must be the representative for most citizens and focus on solving the people’s problems to improve people’s quality of life. In addition, the Prime Minister was supervised by other independent country organization in UK. If people are unsatisfied with government, the parliament has power to fire the Prime Minister or any government officer. In a parliamentary system, with a collegial executive, power is more divided. It can also be argued that power is more evenly spread out in the power structure of parliamentarianism (http://enfranchise.wordpress.com/advantages-disadvantages-of-a-parliamentary-system/). It shows us in democracy countries President or Prime Minister usually do not have over power, the government’s decisions have to be discussed by other parties before it becomes effective, if it was not generally accepted by people, it will not pass. The UK’s politics system means British have high level of democracy, level of democracy are one quality of life indicators, it shows the most of people conduct this country not only the government officers. Also, high level of level was one important standard of developed countries, for example, US, Japan, Canada, South Korea all has high level of democracy, and in high level of democracy countries the government corruption is slight because of its supervision system. In a word, UK’s perfect politics system shows they own high level of democracy, it means British has high quality of life. UK’s culture is colorful, this colorful culture makes UK be more distinctive. British people like simpleness, their life is brief. For example, they usually drink tea at daily life. It is not just a stereotype – the British really do drink lots of tea! However, in Staffordshire, tea can be used to describe the evening meal (http://www.staffs.ac.uk/international/support/life_in_the_uk/british_and_local_culture/). Do not like Japanese, they may not so laborious because they spend more time and money on enjoying life. So Britain’s population growth rate is pretty low, they do not want so many children, it will waste their too much time and money. Also, they do not need much children to sustain their later life because UK owns a perfect healthcare system. So British people like simple life, they always are willing to spend energy enjoying life. Second, UK’s history is ancient. This grand culture makes most of British people are traditional and polite. For example, males are always willing to be gentlemen in UK, it’s a proud thing for males to do something for girls or women. This graceful tradition makes British people be more popular in Europe. It means British people have a high level education, so they are helpful and polite. In a word, UK’s culture is polite and freedom, British people are always willing to spending time on enjoying life and simple life-style, it shows us their high quality of life. In conclusion, UK as a developed country, has lots of good qualities. The nice environment, democracy politics system and brilliant culture, show us its strong national power. Large net migration, high level of democracy and low population growth rate tells people they have high quality of life. That’s why a island country could be a developed country.

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