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Indian demographics is FAR worse than China's going forward. Her demographic divident is mostly done / wasted - the few affluent and educated states are aging o
by dirtyid 4y ago
Indian demographics is FAR worse than China's going forward. Her demographic divident is mostly done / wasted - the few affluent and educated states are aging out, massively overpopulated, under-educated and poor states are younger but have little prospects with atrocious labour particapation rate. That's a far bigger recipe for disaster than PRC who at ~5x per capita wealth and massive savings rate to manage demographic transition.
Reality is, India demographics is less blessing and more curse, she has to tackle a far larger overpopulation crisis with fewer resources and opportunities. Her economic growth / ability to generate new jobs has rarely kept up with population growth, and with automation, offshoring spreading out to smaller countries, there won't be same amount of manufacturing jobs to elevate India as it did PRC. India looks to be destined to get old while staying lower middle-income VS PRC who will at least enter high income. And once the old start dying in PRC , there will be huge amounts of generational wealth transfers that analysts predict will increase / sustain highend consumption. What Apple is really anticipating is being squeezed out due to geopolitics and rise in domestic PRC luxury brands.
That said, still India has 1.4B people and aggressive tariff policies to encourage local assembly / sales, but in terms of market power, there will be more high income PRC nationals vs Indians for Apple tax tier products, and that won't meaningfully converge unless India goes all in on income disparity.
- bamboozled 4y agoWhy are you referring to India using human pronouns ? He/her? You can just say “India”.
- mperham 4y agoApproximately 80% of the planet does not speak English at all. Be kind.
- bamboozled 4y agoI speak multiple languages and I was asking a question, not trying to be unkind. I asked the question because their English seemed so good to me that it seemed intentional, it also seemed unusual.
- ryan_lane 4y agoI think gendering a country is something that's done specifically if you're relatively native in English. To me it's the kind of thing I'd expect to hear from my grandparents. It's weird and old-fashioned. Even most news sources use the genderless "it" for countries nowadays. It's honestly a bit cringy to read.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoIn languages with gendered nouns, countries, cars, boats, and houses are almost always female because they contain humans (and females have a womb). English doesn't have gendered nouns, but this linguistic quirk runs deep enough in human psychology that we do sometimes use female pronouns to describe these things. Examples: "She's a beauty" (of a car), or "America and her allies."
- alostpuppy 4y agoThat is fascinating. It’s more or less like me trying to use the metric system.
- sbaiddn 4y ago"because they contain humans (and females have a womb)." While I like the theory, its cute, I dont know that that's true. L'automobile is male in Italian and Spanish. And its easy for a native speaker in either language to come up with numerous examples. In fact gender really is just grammar. We shouldn't see much into it trying to project ourselves into it. Otherwise, why can the same object have different genders through synonyms? Again: La macchina L'automobile. La yerba (granted in Spanish its lost its meaning as grass) El cesped La nave Il barco La embarcación El bote Or changes from the addition of a mere diminutive: Il banco La bancarella Il barco La barchetta Gender is just a classification, largely binary (although Spanish retains the neuter) that got the unfortunate sexual labels of male and female
- mdrzn 4y ago> L'automobile is male in Italian and Spanish. What? LA automobile is female. > Il barco La barchetta "IL barco" doesn't mean anything, it's "LA barca" which, again, is female. I'd say that generally speaking "it's female when they contain people" is correct, but of course not always (LO ufficio = the office).
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- dirtyid 4y agoCountries are occasionally associated with genders even in English (mother/father land etc). India is commonly referred to as her. Quick research into why: >Bhārat Mātā ( Mother India in English) is a national personification of India (Bharat) as a mother goddess. I don't know how valid, TBH I use pronouns because it's rhetorically tedious to keep typing country name.
- sbaiddn 4y agoYou could use "it" as a non gendered pronoun. But you don't have to. "it" is considered impolite, something you don't use for something you treasure. Furthermore English has a perfectly long history of referring to countries as shes. This has fallen in disuse in the past 50 years as we've gotten fussy about the sexes. But it is certainly not incorrect or foreign to English.
- dirtyid 4y ago>"it" is considered impolite Basically this. I generally try to use variant of 2/3 letter country code instead of pronounces to reduce repetition, but IN/IND sounds awkward.
- sbaiddn 4y agoUntil very recently non-humans were often referred to, in English, with gendered pronouns. This persists in English speaking countries and cultures other than US/UK. Countries have, historically, been identified as women not just in the written word but also in illustration, poetry, etc. The OP's relationship to his country is entirely on his terms not yours. Furthermore the role of pronouns are not to refer to people, but generally to refer to nouns. In some cultures it is considered rude to refer to a person as a pronoun. So OP shouldn't be using "India" repetitively (which would tire the reader/listener). One can use "it" to refer to "India", OP will prefers to refer to India as a "she" Some may find this backwards, or misogynistic. That's their problem.