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perdido@lemmy.eco.br 10 months agoIndia and China are rich as hell though, they have a ton of resources. Shouldn’t they have more laidback populations then?
India isn’t, it’s a 3 trillion economy for a billion plus people. Per capita that’s very low. India recently did a lot of expeditions to try and find oil but had no luck. There are a lot of spices but the value of those has reduced compared to newer technologies like semiconductors.
China has just become rich recently, there should be a decline / easing of pressure on people in the next few years / decades.
That’s not my point. Japan is a rich country nowadays but it does not have a lot of natural resources ancient people could use, which is what I’m talking about. As the theory goes, a resource-less country should give rise to an expansionist, aggressive society in search of said resources whereas countries like India and China, with plenty of water, fertile land and valuable minerals should give rise to more laidback societies, which is the opposite of what you’re claiming.
They’re talking about right now. Historically India and China were relatively wealthy (by the standards of the time), and so were usually on the receiving end of invasions.
I think that would work for the 19th century and before, not in the present day and age.
China is pretty poor individually. Its the sum. India is simply poor entirely outside of some billionaires
DarkMFG@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Guess it has to do with the fact that Europeans, primarily, have been fucking India and China over the past 100-200-ish years. Resulting in many Indians and Chinese not having access to their own reaources and so creating that whole overwork/study culture thing.
DerKanzler@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Modern China started late bc of civil wars but chinese culture including confucius was always about educating until you can do well in imperial exams.
perdido@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
Yeah, that makes sense.