When Trump-like figures get a lot of support in the developing world, I can pretend it's just a sign of pre-modern, illiterate medievalism..
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But when a guy like him gets double-digit support in a supposedly developed, modern country that I chose to immigrate to...that's depressing
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I mean the US isn't a country with massive illiteracy, poverty, ayatollahs running amok and entrenched religion-based caste warfare...
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yup... it can seem like that sometimes, but when you've experienced the real thing you realize how much better this is
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good response. I was being a. It facetious, but yes I totally agree. Still a paradise of self expression in many ways
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India is probably as good as the developing world gets in liberal democratic terms but is still far behind
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"Nair’s starting point is that the world simply cannot survive the consequences of the growth of highly populous Asian economies .."
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“… to levels of development reached by industrialised countries…"
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“… if that is to be achieved on the same resource-guzzling terms as western development."
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Gives a brilliant talk. Well worth the read. Lots of India / China case study comparison. Liberal vs. Illiberal approaches, etc.
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