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Re:The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam by nashashmi on Friday December 18, 2015 @08:28AM (#10758291)
I hate to put the blame on to any "one" reason for Southern Europe doing badly, but I came across an article that probably gave a better reason why there was so much difference between North and South Europe, and the theory it presents is religious difference between Protestantism and Catholicism. Protestant (read the bible) & Catholic (follow the pope). This gave the north literary rise, and literary history, and advanced them above their southern neighbors.

Corruption could be fallout of illiteracy, or maybe, lack of corruption could be a fallout of advancing literacy.

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Re:The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam by gosub on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:12AM (#10758486)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber#The_Protestant_Ethic...
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Re:The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam by defiblep on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:12AM (#10758479)
It could go back even further than that - Rome ran on patronage, and maybe the southern states didn't fall as far as the northern ones.
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Re:The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam by saint_fiasco on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:02AM (#10758420)
If that is the case, Southern European corruption should reduce in the future, because now Catholics are literate too.

India still has terrible public education, so it may take them longer to catch up.

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Re:The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam by discardorama on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:28AM (#10758584)
> India still has terrible public education, so it may take them longer to catch up.

India is a _very_ big country; as big as all of Europe, if not bigger. There are parts of India that are highly educated; in fact, the southern Indian state of Kerala has nearly 100% literacy. And corruption is plentiful there too.

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Re:The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam by devdas on Friday December 18, 2015 @01:18PM (#10759915)
India also has to dismantle the social systems and institutions set up by the British, which were designed to make people at the top rich, instead of running for the benefit of society.

Dismantling this is hard work, and you cannot simply destroy a bureaucracy without having a replacement ready (or chaos). WWII was good for Europe in some ways, because it massively destroyed the aristocracy and a lot of bureaucracy along with it. It was effectively a reboot of society, backed by a lot of cheap funding.

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Re:The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam by stuxnet79 on Friday December 18, 2015 @04:36PM (#10761132)
Yes, a lot of change cannot be done without massive upheaval - this is the dilemma we face in Africa.
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Re:The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam by mercnet on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:01AM (#10758419)
Sounds like an interesting read, do you have link to the article?
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Re:The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam by nashashmi on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:32AM (#10758940)
My introduction to this was:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/the-chosen-few-a-ne...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/jewish-literacy-as-the-r...

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Re:The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam by gauthr on Friday December 18, 2015 @09:10AM (#10758466)
The article was probably based on this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...
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