chola wrote:
By the same token, India can be far more innovative if we employed a better system than the semi-socialism we had in place since the Nehru clan. Politically correct or not, we might be more innovative by genetics and no, it has nothing to do with the "invasion from the north" theory.
Anna,
funda is pretty simple Da. India is far more equal society than the top down monarchies of east asia.
This is conducive to more bottom up innovation. Thus we are better innovators, and will be better innovators than east asians.
Also, we have a tendency to follow our rituals to the T, put bhog, tilak, feed laddoo to the ganapati, etc. come rain shine, invader 1, invader 2, and the like.
In East Asia, since things change by fiat, once the CPC outlawed religion, its practise was much reduced. How will you have any Taoism or the like influencing far off India (unlike Buddhism influencing far off Japan) if your rulers themselves screw the religious leaders?
The first Emperor of united China was a guy called Qin Shi Huangdi, who got the terracotta warriors in Xian made for his after life.
Guy butchers all the 6 kingdoms, something like (Chand)ashoka, but unlike Ashoka, he rapes kills and pillages the scholars and poets who criticise his actions. Screws Taoism through and through and disables it for centuries.
Please search wiki :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wa ... death_toll
Out of top 10 genocides in history, 6 are Chinese. And most of them are rebellions/wars.
East Asians fight total wars. Society is through and through militarized. The entire nations of people join the army and take up arms when war calls for it.
They believe in thorough conquest of the vanquished, so much so that the entire Han gene pool is majorly uniform; you do not see anything close to that in Europe or India. This can only happen when there are wars on a massive scale, as there have been, and enough people conquer women.
This is the historical nature of war in East Asia. To expect China to suddenly have a peaceful rise is to be foolish. See the US response to the Chinese rise. An overt and out-and-out policy of being aggressive and pivoting in the Asia Pacific region. This is contrast to our waffling about. The Chinese do not waffle. They are expansionist +mercantile group of people. There is no mercy there --see history--and also how they treat their animals---no mercy at all. Thus, there should also, economically, not be too much soft corners in our hearts for chini bhai bhai and we should relentlessly pursue our self interest in a polite but firm manner.
it is important to realize the weak point of the CPC, that is, democracy, and rebellion (and they fear it since it has caused them so much grief in the past). Again, that wiki list will tell you more than I can, about WHY the CPC fears both scholars, writers, religious leaders and over all, rebellious protest so much.
Some societies are not meant to have democracy and they do far better under authoritarian rule than not. East Asia, the middle east, both show this trend.