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I understand it is 'understood' that India is typically placed higher than Africa in the hierarchy of countries, owing to the success of their emigres. However
by throay423432 6y ago
I understand it is 'understood' that India is typically placed higher than Africa in the hierarchy of countries, owing to the success of their emigres.
However, in reality, barring these colonial era 'Macaulay's children' (ala ICS officers who swore by the Queen} India and Africa actually have very similar development indicators.
Unless, India sorts out its colonized education system, which ultimately is geared more towards shipping labor off to other countries, and focuses on policy reforms to make industrialization sustainable without paying politicians hundreds of millions in bribes, there's actually a good chance that it'll fall behind Africa as well.
- harichinnan 6y agoThey do teach mathematics in India well though. Indian expat population is a small percentage of what's back home. India has close to 1.4 billion population. Indian diaspora in other countries would be much less than 100 million. So that disproves your theory that Indian education is geared towards exporting labor. You might've been blindsided by India IT expats living in West. That came out because of focus on IT education.
- entha_saava 6y agoCan confirm. Once there was demand for IT because of outsourcing, everyone studied CSE and most of them didn't have interest in it, obviously. This explains the quality of work outsourced to sweatshops like Infosys and TCS.
- cjsaltlake 6y agoIndia is a single country, with a relatively well established national identity (obviously not perfect!, but enough for people to work and live in the same area), and a relatively stable government. Most African countries are still in flux in a huge way, and are just barely starting to establish stable national identities after decades of civil war.
- selimthegrim 6y agoKashmir, Assam, Manipur and Nagaland would like a word with you
- entha_saava 6y agoThe problem with Indian education system is that it is rote-learning focused. People do courses for sake of getting jobs and therefore everyone tries to game the system by optimizing for some metrics. It is not fundamentally geared towards shipping labour to other countries.
- selimthegrim 6y agoThe proportion of Indians was never that high in the ICS even right before Independence.