India to become 'open defecation free' by 2012 (Diversity Alert)

Daily India ^ | 3/27/06 | Mikey_1962

[Cronos]

Clubbing in general terms, entire continents even, is what makes the internet, and these anonymous forums, so popular.

Yes, we have a brilliant person on another post who thinks that all people who live in Asia look like the Chinese: namely all the Jews and Arabs and Iranis and Indians and Russians are all Chinese looking and they aren't Caucasians (according to him)

[King Moonracer]

India to become 'open defecation free' by 2012

Thats fine by me. There is still the Klintoon Library....just waiting for me....

[Cronos]

Put those Indians in california back into India and see how far they'll go WITHOUT US companies.

You have people like the founders of Wipro, Infosys. Then the old business houses like the Bajajs or the Tatas. Agreed that Indians in the US have more opportunities to improve their lot (that's what make the USA the greatest country in the world -- anyone with gumption, talent and hard work can live the dream), but they are able to do things in India as well. No different than the Chinese in China.... Chinese OUTSIDE China like in Taiwan, Singapore, the US, Hong Kong (and don't tell me SAR is a part of the mainland when it's so only in name) do fantastically.

It's actually pretty sad that two lands with such intrinsic trading skills and communities like India and China took up communism and socialism. Anyway that's going to change.

B.T.W., I'm based in Hong Kong now for the next few months and it is WOW -- more futuristic than ANY European or American city. I think the future will bring more co-operation between the two giants and China will transition to democracy, slowly. If China doesn't, it WILL face incredible pressures and will collapse. The upper leadership I think doesn't have much control over the rural party leadership, but when Hu leaves, the next generation may inaugurate more reforms -- remember that China has been trying to reform since 1840

[stuartcr]

Well, no matter how we may think of ourselves, there are no prerequisites for participating in anonymous forums...other than a computer, a lot of extra time and a password.