It just underscores that the third world is really the third world.
China achieves its results (which still aren't at the level of the US) through some really authoritarian pratices. I think Yao Ming still isn't as famous in the USA as he deserves to be because he was (and is) so beholden to China.
India is largely undeveloped. They have a ton of people but not much else to show for it.
But they will surely put our factories there and decimate our middle class.
Except athletics. Which is largely dominated by Africans and their descendants. Especially long-distance running…
But yeah, it doesn’t hold for China and India, granted.
It was, however, interesting to see that, in the women’s marathon, the Christian Ethiopian and Kenya looked much more normal, and played fairer, than the immigrant Muslim who moved to the Netherlands as a refugee (and unfortunately won)…
Which suggests that even growing up partly in the West, a Muslim immigrant has less in common with the rest of us than a Christian African who was born and raised on that continent, lol…
The guy who nearly murdered Salman Rushdie a couple of years back being but one example…
Also Shemima Begum (the IS girl, from England), and the teenager who stabbed the Syriac bishop in Western Sydney recently…
All of those were second or third-generation Muslim “citizens”…
It’s a recurring theme, in many Western countries…
Australia isn’t really known for its urban ghettoes (anymore), but if you spend time in the Muslim, African or Pasifika-dominated parts of any of the big 4 capital cities, it really, really doesn’t feel safe in any way. Particularly Western Sydney, lol…
It just underscores that the third world is really the third world.
China achieves its results (which still aren't at the level of the US) through some really authoritarian pratices. I think Yao Ming still isn't as famous in the USA as he deserves to be because he was (and is) so beholden to China.
India is largely undeveloped. They have a ton of people but not much else to show for it.
But they will surely put our factories there and decimate our middle class.
Just more evidence that globalization is a scam.
Except athletics. Which is largely dominated by Africans and their descendants. Especially long-distance running…
But yeah, it doesn’t hold for China and India, granted.
It was, however, interesting to see that, in the women’s marathon, the Christian Ethiopian and Kenya looked much more normal, and played fairer, than the immigrant Muslim who moved to the Netherlands as a refugee (and unfortunately won)…
Which suggests that even growing up partly in the West, a Muslim immigrant has less in common with the rest of us than a Christian African who was born and raised on that continent, lol…
That happens quite a lot, I believe…
The guy who nearly murdered Salman Rushdie a couple of years back being but one example…
Also Shemima Begum (the IS girl, from England), and the teenager who stabbed the Syriac bishop in Western Sydney recently…
All of those were second or third-generation Muslim “citizens”…
It’s a recurring theme, in many Western countries…
Australia isn’t really known for its urban ghettoes (anymore), but if you spend time in the Muslim, African or Pasifika-dominated parts of any of the big 4 capital cities, it really, really doesn’t feel safe in any way. Particularly Western Sydney, lol…