That's my entire point. Cultural emphasis upon education is nothing without governmental emphasis. If there's economic reforms, the government begins providing these services for the populace to stimulate innovations and thus you have the rise of an empowered middle class - it's a cyclical process. Look, the cultural argument is common. For example, the economic fortunes of India, China, and Israel all improved markedly around the 1980s. This wasn't because they got themselves new cultures, but rather because their governments changed specific policies and created a more market-friendly system. China is growing faster than India, but that has more to do with the fact that China is reforming its economy more extensively than India is, than with any alleged superiority of the Confucian ethic over its Hindu counterpart.
depends on how you look at it. in China, a government is nothing if it doesn't focus on education. the old imperial examination system was a must have in any dynasty to have legitimate power. and i think the argument earlier was that, in China, the cultural focus on education is one of the many factors that the economy is growing. i don't think other posters claimed it was cultural superiority. there is not one method to get rich. everybody has their own way to get rich. i won't bother explaining on Confucianism and the focus on education have affected China for thousands of years. when an entire civilization is based on Confucianism, no dynasty/government is free of the influence. communists included.
" . .. . I WAS BUSY!" See if you know where that quote is from Rocket River . . . . hint . .it was an Eddie Murphy Movie
Yep. Exactly. So they need to produce lots of babies to survive infancy and adulthood, which means a big population. Whereas, the Japanese and Europeans are seeing their population decrease. Some even have to import migrant workers from developing nations because they don't have enough people to work.
Colonialism, imperialism, core-periphery relations that keep developing countries dependent on the developed countries, and debt
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Unfortunately, some of us who are too young (8th grade when he died) only recognize the last ten seconds of that act, not the well-crafted jokes that came before it. And where's the beret and long hair? Image, schtick and freak, accidental deaths are hell on a performer's legacy.
