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Title: Inferiority complex...
Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 02:08:13 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8546183.stm

Very common thing I noticed when I first came here. At first I laughed at this crap, because it seemed so racist or something.... now it is just sad.
Title: Re: Inferiority complex...
Post by: Cobra951 on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 06:51:07 AM
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With the Indian middle class expected to increase 10-fold to 583 million people by 2025 . . .

 ???

That's what floored me.  That's what's really sad, for us.  You know where that boom comes from.  Good for them, though.
Title: Re: Inferiority complex...
Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 07:05:56 AM
My econ teacher told us something during our first lesson: The rich get richer, while the poor have more children.

And why good for them? That country is severely over populated.
Title: Re: Inferiority complex...
Post by: Cobra951 on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 07:09:16 AM
I'm assuming the middle-class expansion comes from the ranks of the poor.  (The reverse is happening here, with much of the middle class sinking into poverty levels.)  How can that not be good for India?
Title: Re: Inferiority complex...
Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 07:22:17 AM
Yea I misunderstood. You are right.
Title: Re: Inferiority complex...
Post by: ren on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 07:25:07 PM
My econ teacher told us something during our first lesson: The rich get richer, while the poor have more children.

And why good for them? That country is severely over populated.

Right, so as the poor becomes the middle class, the birth rate goes down.