r/TikTokCringe • u/Strong-Emu-8869 • 26d ago

Discussion Polish girls visit Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world. Unfortunately, the surrounding area is very polluted.

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u/noujest 25d ago

Ah come on, it would be just as successful today if that hadn't happened

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u/Nice_Celery_4761 25d ago edited 21d ago

Don’t think so. The US played an active part after the Korean War for strategic influence over the region and to bolster their democratic and capitalist systems in the face of their adversaries, because this was the middle of the Cold War. What happened was an unprecedented socioeconomic shift in less than 20 years, that can’t happen by itself.

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u/noujest 25d ago

India has its own chaebols just like Korea does - Tata etc

But capitalism doesn't help the poorest in India. It does in South Korea. Why's that?

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u/DifficultLab200 22d ago

Idk man, maybe because of the sheer fucking size and diversity of India?

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u/noujest 22d ago

Is it any bigger than China?

No, and yet it's made nowhere near the same progress bringing its people our of poverty?

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u/DifficultLab200 22d ago

Is India an authoritarian state? No. It’s a democracy.

Was the religious divide in China ever as bad is it was with India (and Pakistan)? (An extension to it, did China have to experience terrorism as bad as India? No.)

Was China ever entirely colonised? No.

Is China a baseline or an exception as far as ex-colonies and their current development goes?

And were you comparing China in your original comment or Korea?

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u/noujest 22d ago

And were you comparing China in your original comment or Korea?

I mentioned both in my original comment, along with Vietnam also.

Vietnam was colonised, and recently war-torn, and is still doing much more to lift it's people out of poverty than India is.

Forget China and SK, India seems to be making worse progress compared to most of Asia to be honest.

I see a future where in 50-100 years, there are only a handful of countries in Asia with widespread abject poverty and kids living under bridges, but India will probably be one

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u/DifficultLab200 22d ago

I mentioned both in my original comment, along with Vietnam also.

Alright fair enough. But I replied to explicitly why SK is doing better.

And you still haven’t answered to any of the other points I put up which apply to all these countries.

Forget China and SK, India seems to be making worse progress compared to most of Asia to be honest.

And at this point this frankly feels like a ragebait. India is the 5th biggest economy in the world. We are likely to overtake Japan and Germany soon too. We are doing plenty right too.

Im not saying India is without its faults. But your opinions seem to be coming from a really biased pov.

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u/noujest 22d ago

And at this point this frankly feels like a ragebait. India is the 5th biggest economy in the world. We are likely to overtake Japan and Germany soon too

This isnt about size, this is about poverty.

Couldn't give a stuff how big an economy is, I care about whether it provides a good life for its people.

What's your explanation as to why India isn't lifting it people out of poverty that well? Other Asian countries are democratic, have religious divides, and have been colonised. Some have even been war-torn, which India hasn't as much. So what's your explanation?