@AnkitM997 I mean also paradoxically, naturally gifted areas in pre-modern era would put less developmental pressures on sociopolitical systems and especially political economy of the region, since conflict/competition would be relatively lower due to the abundance of produce-worthy land
@Mkollxue0@pjchougule Loads of them are. All the Indic/South Asian studies programs in Western Universities are filled with them. H1b or equivalents are a minority and largely limited to the US
@AgentSaffron I sense a profoundly unhappy individual whenever one does this "pay gratitude to mah city!!!". The city isn't doing them some cosmic favour that they should be singing praises and not express genuine criticism.
@AnkitM997 Great thread. Low-trust behaviour pops up even with mini-institutional decline, like the US is witnessing right now with resurgence of brazen corruption at top-level. Will eventually make its way to local levels as oversight weakens and becomes politicised.
@karbonoksit Actual voter turnout had 71% Indian-Americans voting for Democrats in 2024. Again, why did you single out Indians as if they're particularly right wing...? Screams racism.
@AnkitM997 Focus shifted to subsidisation of consumption and the populace having no expectation of the state investing in creating industries to employ them in meant that there was no private investment in industrial training as well
@AnkitM997 My hypothesis is that in post-basic industrialisation in the 50s and 60s that was important to maintain sovereignty, and saw the greatest relative expansion of the industrial workforce in modern indian history, India just lost the way and stopped doing industrial policy. +
@Slide2theleft_@metr0politics You do realise those wealthy diaspora communities still face racism and have to work much harder to get to the same spot? Working class whites don't have it as bad as a middle class black person by any standard of measure. This is just white identitarian larp disguised as leftism