> If Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Mexicans and others are so smart and hard working, why are their nations such failures for oh, centuries? Why do their people live in the mud?
America is the best country I think, but then I was born here so I’m biased. But I’ve always wondered how thinking your country is the best (as we all should) somehow makes Americans think non-Americans lives are crap.
It doesn’t. A better question is why do Americans know so little about everyone else. Just for one example, though poverty is a problem in Mexico, they have a rapidly growing middle class and actually have the world’s 12th largest economy now and are our 3rd or 4th largest trading partner. They can grow their way out of the problem they are in right now and they are. Their biggest threat is nativists who reduce Mexico to the issue of illegal immigration are also protectionists -most of them. You could tell a similar story about China and India.
