India vs. China vs. Egypt

[northeast]

Bottom line is that the country with more intelligent and hard working people will prosper more.

North korean are as inteligent and hard working people as South korean，but they aren't wealthy at all，they are starving.

 

[kawaraj]

“India today has 560 million young people under the age of 25 .... “If we get it right, India becomes the workhorse of the world. If we get it wrong, there is nothing worse than unemployable, frustrated” youth.

Indeed, some of India’s disaffected youth are turning to Maoism in rural areas. “We have Maoists among our tribal populations, who have not benefited from the opportunities of modern India,” Tharoor said. There have been violent Maoist incidents in 165 of India’s 625 districts in recent years, as Maoists tap into all those left out of the “Indian dream.” So there is now a huge push here to lure poor kids into school.

Excellent point.

Out of control or lack of fairly education or feeds the mass youth could well be a devastating force, which is exactly very few can figure out. This is the cons out of all the pros that all Indian fellows on the forum are bragging about. The extreme is an ultimate revolution, turning India to a communism nation. (or in the oposite extreme breaking up India to independent hinduism and muslim nations or other forms say joining our federation or Bangladesh.)

Well this is not exactly a bad thing considering the leftist regime will burn down all the non-secular shackles that inflict India for the entire history. The other option is far fetched projection as the west will completely involve in to prevent this "scared to death" situation to them from happening even close.

 

[Wright]

North korean are as inteligent and hard working people as South korean，but they aren't wealthy at all，they are starving.

Because of a failed political system. Let them be as democratic as India and they will outgrow India in living standards.

 

[IND151]

Interesting article

I agree 100% with Post number.

 

[Arya Desa]

Freed from the shackles of democracy, you will see how fast we grow. We are just as capable and hardworking as the Chinese.

 

[Anonymous user]

I don't agree with this article at all because majority of his points are based on one word (Civil Society) which I hardly hear being used and the when goolging it up the word itself has a very loose definition of what is supposed to represent.

This is an article of interest when I came upon relating to the use of this word.

Commentary: Friedman's Civil-Society Panacea | The National Interest

His whole point supposedly about China having a weak Civil Society because of the lack of ability to create a self awareness in their society outside of government support speaks of someone who hardly knows of Chinese culture and a very cold war communist mindset. (that's civil society in a nutshell)

Chinese mainly support each other within dialects and further into village associations, when competing against other Chinese usually the village/surname links are the strongest where support comes in. But if Chinese had to assist themselves against non Chinese then the association will go higher.

That's how overseas Chinese supported themselves when doing business overseas in Asia

Look at the list of such associations in Asean alone
Kongsi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Its the support among Chinese that created their success overseas today, and all that happened because of the pratices that brought with them from China.

 

[JSCh]

China has always has a strong civil society. Traditionally China has a "small" government and Chinese community self regulate themselves with custom, tradition and Confucianism. However, China also has a tradition of maintaining a single identity or center. Strong civil society and single unity or center coexist in China.

This is advice from Laozi (credited founder of Taoism in 6 century BC) on conduct of government,
"Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. Don't spoil it with too much poking"

Communism is on the other end of the spectrum that believe in "big" government. Some poking has indeed prove to spoil too much, but not all poking are bad.

While it is true that the Chinese government has more say in governance than the civil society, but Chinese would probably not use the western idea of check and balance to look at the relationship between government and civil society. Chinese would likely see the relationship between government and society as more complementary/hierarchical, and the government having a bigger say as natural because center government has a more comprehensive national picture therefore is in a better position to coordinate.

Chinese after all traditionally view government as paternalistic and unity is considered as important.

 

[sixnerdy]

This article is not funny at all.