I will add that they are also a quite self reliant people; many of them live in areas where the government doesn’t provide much services at all (other than an o

I will add that they are also a quite self reliant people; many of them live in areas where the government doesn’t provide much services at all (other than an occasional shakedown for a bribe). They are very good farmers. Their main opinion as I heard it expressed on foreign affairs is that they’d just like to be left alone and deal with less corruption. One of the most amazing things was craftsmen who machine parts out of ebony wood or other tropical hardwoods - and use these to keep engines running. (I remain perplexed how they handle high heat, temperature changes, etc., but it works). I have never met a people more able to keep an ancient motorbike running. Not everything gets counted in GDP… I am not sure the country would be improved if it somehow got replaced with a lifestyle of living like Europeans or Americans.