soc.culture.china

On Aug 23, 5:22 am, RichAsianKid wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2:11 pm, "M. Ranjit Mathews"
> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 21, 1:12 am, joyo wrote:
>
> > > "we owe a lot to the hindus, who taught us how to count, without which
> > > no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made".
>
> > > So anyone said anything nice about the Koreans?
>
> > I remember reading that South Korea increased its per capita income 20
> > fold in the same time that India increased its per capita income 2
> > fold, over a period of 40 years.
>
> The figures are:
>
> Table 3: Comparison between 1950 and 2000. GDP per capita Ratio
> (2000/1950)
>
> China - Chine
> India - Inde <-----
> Indonesia - Indon=E9sie
> Japan - Japon
> South Korea <-----
> Thailand - Tha=EFlande
> Taiwan
> Hong Kong
> Malaysia - Malaisie
> Singapore - Singapour
>
> Thus India lags behind not only NE Asian countries but also developing
> SouthEast Asian countries.
>
> In other words, you can always say that India is growing in absolute
> terms.
>
> But without looking at how fast other places are growing also, it's
> meaningless.

RAK and Ranjit Matthews in the same bed.