Topic: Inferiority complex...

[Pugnate]

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.

[Cobra951]

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.

[Pugnate]

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.

[Cobra951]

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?

[Pugnate]

Yea I misunderstood. You are right.

[ren]

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.