> terrible mistake. should have left them in the stone age with nothing. world would be better today. i think india is worse than haiti. jawaharlal nehru, first prime minister of india after its independence from britain put it succinctly: > "what is new in india is not suffering; what is new in india is the -awareness- of suffering in light of the advances in which the western world has left us behind" left to his own devices, the barbarian is happy living in a mud hut and picking berries; once he realizes that peasants in first-world countries live in a luxury that makes their kings, nabobs, pooh-bahs, and potentates look like beggars, with their televisions, supermarkets, star wars action figures, and air conditioning, he begins to feel his own inferiority and poverty all the more keenly - and more to the point, enviously
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