India passes China in population

I need a way to rate a rating. @exiledgator had me cracking up with his informative rating.

 

Some may be trying to pass for Americans. But I know it's common in China, for example, for business people to have an English name they use with English speakers. I'm sure that's partly because we probably wouldn't be able to pronounce their given names.

We already have two Indian-Americans running for president. "Nikki" works just fine but I can see some struggles with Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy.

 

No it’s at disgusting shithole with a bitterly divided populace, some who dwell in the gutter due to the leftovers of their caste system. It’s wealth inequity puts ours to shame.

you can get a glimpse of the shitholery if you watch a cooking show called Food Ranger (ver annoying host don’t recommend it). He kind of roams around China and India and Latin America, sampling local cuisine but not restaurants, more like street food or food made in mass quantities (think noodle bowls and curried chicken). The Chinese are meticulously clean, the Indians are filthy, dressed in rags, barefoot, cross contaminated items, cooking in earthen pits. As the population goes up their fortunes go down. If India was a business they’d sell off the parts.

I should start a podcast. “Why your country sucks”

 

Same in India, used a broker for a business I ran. Dude was an Indian in HK went by Harry.

 

Tech recruiters do that all the time..

 

very good content if you like center of the road, fact-based reporting. dropped my subscription a while back but they are highly ranked

Financial Times - Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com)

 

I've spent some time in India and I would not call it a disgusting shit hole. It's an enormous and varied country, geologically, culturally, and most everyway imaginable.

It is certainly dirty and polluted and its societal structures and mores are such that they limit the creativity and potential of its people.

Not everyones cup of a tea, but shit hole seems a bit much.

 

I was in India (in the capital) earlier this year, and it has some nice things going for it, but it also has some major obstacles. The infrastructure has a long way to go. Roads are not well-designed, and flooding and erosion are difficult to control (I drove past a 10'-deep, 8'-wide pothole in the middle of a major road near the presidential palace every day). The roads combine pedestrians, bicycles, tuk-tuks, motorcycles, cars, and trucks, and there are 5-way and 6-way traffic circles essentially up against each other (vehicles merging from one circle have to cross each other going into the next circle). India does not get along well with any of its neighbors (mainly China and Pakistan), and has to maintain additional security everywhere to deal with threats (you had to submit your luggage or briefcase to be x-rayed every time you entered your hotel, decades after a terror attack on a hotel). The caste system, which is still alive, limits opportunity and productivity. Less than 25% of women are in the workplace. The country has something like 23 languages, so not everyone understands each other. The also have some superstitious religious practices (I saw people that had brought quarts or gallons of water from the Ganges River to Delhi to walk containers of it--hanging from a pole on their shoulders--several miles down a main highway to a religious site to present it to one of their gods). And their prime minister is more of a dictator than a politician.

 

LMFAO!!

 

Indian guy in my seminary class has 17 letters in his last name. Mercifully he allowed us to call him John K. John.

 

I’m glad this thread was bumped so I could see this post.

 

Recommended: Russell Peter’s videos.

 

They aren't the first Indian Americans to run for the presidency. Anyone remember Bobby Jindal (birth name Piyush Jindal) the former governor of Louisiana? He was one of the many candidates who ended up losing the nomination to the candidate from New York with the orange complexion.

 

Reminds me of the character Apu from the Simpsons, full name Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.

 

At least they are getting laid

 

India - Maybe the Chinese can borrow a few hundred million Indian laborers.

I agree that soho is a bit extreme with "a disgusting shithole".
I should predicate the above by saying I have never been and have no desire to go, but my sister has shot documentary films over there (about Mother Teresa). Her descriptions were a bit depressing.

I understand that in some airports Westeners are literally hounded and surrounded by the less fortunate looking for handouts the second one steps out of the terminal. That is pretty discouraging to.

Of course foreigners that go to Jackson Miss, or Detroit, or Camden, NJ, or numerous parts of Florida, or parts of Appalachia, may not be overly impressed either.

Well everyone is claiming that China's population and work force is going straight in the crapper in 20 years or less do to lack of population growth, meaning the country is going into the crapper. Apparantly the legacy of the (1-child) policy.

I don't believe those dire predictions myself, just because Peter Zeihan uses it as a talking point. I am not ready to annoint Peter as the next Edgar Cayce just yet. He actually has to get something "right" for me to do that.

What does appear to be happening is that Chinese industrialization and build up of city centers may finally be reaching saturation.

The speculative real estate "disaster" in that country actually has buildings being demolished due to over-build, failed loans and of course shoddy construction.

That does not mean China is reverting to 19th century power politic insignificance.