Comment by 1971genocide
11 years ago
This is why I sometimes wished that rather than have the largest democracy in the world <applause> India were ruled by something similar to the Chinese technocrats who challenged the america-euro global world order. So much of the brightest Indians is the reason why america is a tech giant. India could have similar wealth like the Chinese if it wasn't for this brain-drain. And to make it even worse the american system didn't distribute that generated wealth fairly among its citizen but made a powerful class even more powerful and made average americans and indians poorer.
It is not enough just to produce talent, it is also necessary to have structure in place to utilize/absorb the talent. India was far from that position before, it is somewhat better but still far from ideal.
To turn the point on its head, if you have the infrastructure and environment for talent to be used and valued, they would come, and they did, to USA. However given the strong anti immigrant rhetoric that is becoming popular in USA I am interested to see how this is going to play out.
China also didn't have the infrastructure. In fact India has a lot more infrastructure than china did due to 200 years of British Rule. The difference is China forced their brightest citizen to stay and build whatever infrastructure was needed and also didn't so easily give in to pressure to open up to trade that didn't benefit them in the guise of "globalization".
Not everyone in China is Han Chinese but it is not as diverse as India. Should the Indian Gov't suppress all the different religions in India? Crush ethnic tensions with brute force?
What "anti immigrant rhetoric". How is not wanting to people come illegally and follow the law "anti immigrant".