Heute war ich immer noch angeschlagen von meinem 40-Grad-Plus-Diverse-Tabletten-Erlebnis und hab den Tag mit Relaxen verbracht. Ich hab das Internet zum Thema Globalisierung und Indien durchforstet.
Hier erstmal der positive Blick vom NYT Kolumnisten und Globalisierungsfan T. Friedman:
How did India, in 15 years, go from being a synonym for massive poverty to the brainy country that is going to take all our best jobs? Answer: good timing, hard work, talent and luck.
Dann hab ich noch diesen interessanten Artikel gefunden der das Thema etwas differenzierter beleuchtet:
People are generally ignorant of the fact that there are two distinct Indias. Sharad Joshi distinguised them by calling the urban, rich, educated one India and the rural, poor, uneducated one Bharat. I will borrow that nomenclature. India is small, say about 100 million people at most. India has programmers and BPO call centers and cars and Baristas and McDonalds. Indians get educated at IITs and IIMs and travel abroad and talk to each other in Hindi sentences such as, “mera sleep bahut disturbed ho raha hai these days.”
In contrast to that, Bharat is a huge country of about 900 million, most of whom live in rural areas. They are largely illiterate, poor, have little education, don’t speak in English, do manual labor in farms, wouldn’t know what to do with a computer even if one came and bit them on their skinny behinds, have no illusions about anything shining and are generally ignorant about feeling good.