Young people leaving colleges and universities to enter the world of work want decent, well-paid jobs, and that is exactly what Europe helps to provide.
When President John Kennedy started the Peace Corps in 1961, he hoped that it would bring other parts of the world "that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace".
But there is another reason players and their agents court the publicity of decent World Cup ratings — and Fabiano spelled it out Monday when he suggested he would be very happy to extend his contract with Sevilla, provided the financial terms were right.
The old world of lots and lots of decent factory jobs for people without a lot of education but a strong work ethic — that world is nearly dead and ain't coming back and the candidates know that.
Seinfeld was the first introduction to the world of Major League Baseball for a decent number of non-Americans.
Yet, in the cut-throat world of News International, these decent men have been sold out by the Murdochs, who are now fighting to save their own reputations.
A world of properly heated houses, decent meals and undarned pullovers would fill them with horror, and nothing, as Mr Holroyd always insists, is quite so spiritually sustaining as self-denial.
In parts of the world where decent manners are a given, excessive politesse is viewed as just another form of rudeness.
Sometimes visitors can be overwhelmed by the naked need that exists in other parts of the world, where decent food, running water and sturdy homes are luxuries.
In their conservative world of southern Bangladesh, it was said, decent girls didn't swim.
