Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland
by triceratops on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:27AM
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> The reality is that some cultures are better at it than others
That's extremely lazy reductionism. You're talking about countries of wildly different sizes (Taiwan is tiny, Japan is medium-sized, China is gargantuan), starting from wildly different levels of development (Japan was developed pre-WW2, India and China were in abject poverty), with wildly different levels of homogeneity and diversity (Japan is highly homogenous, China less so, India not at all), diplomatic alignments (Japan with the US, China with the Soviets, India in the third world), resources (Japan with zero, India with quite a fair bit), availability of capital (Japan, Taiwan and South Korea with quite a fair bit, India with very little, don't know about China), political systems (government-managed free market in Japan, autocracy transitioning to a democracy in Taiwan and S Korea, socialism in India, full communism until 1980s-1990s in China).
That's extremely lazy reductionism. You're talking about countries of wildly different sizes (Taiwan is tiny, Japan is medium-sized, China is gargantuan), starting from wildly different levels of development (Japan was developed pre-WW2, India and China were in abject poverty), with wildly different levels of homogeneity and diversity (Japan is highly homogenous, China less so, India not at all), diplomatic alignments (Japan with the US, China with the Soviets, India in the third world), resources (Japan with zero, India with quite a fair bit), availability of capital (Japan, Taiwan and South Korea with quite a fair bit, India with very little, don't know about China), political systems (government-managed free market in Japan, autocracy transitioning to a democracy in Taiwan and S Korea, socialism in India, full communism until 1980s-1990s in China).