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India is a country that could be a superpower. They have the size, the population, the education, the industries, and the location. What they're missing is democratic leadership.
India has aligned itself with China, Russia, Brazil, and South Africa. All countries that have been kicked out of the international adults table because their leadership act like babies. India choose to make these alliances because these countries don't put stipulations on human rights as part of their agreements. Indian leadership doesn't want to clean up their country, they'd rather make friends with Xi and Putin.
This mostly comes from their population voting in religious nationalists, which I hope is a good lesson to everyone as to why that's such a bad idea.
Not China
I never mentioned anything about economic systems. I said human rights. Governments that murder people for speaking their minds will never succeed, regardless of economic model. The best and brightest people don't want to live under oppressive governments.
Second quote is me completing the original. Why did you cut that last part of the sentence out?
Ah that's why. Yeah no they didn't. They were talking about the people leading those countries, not the entire population.
It's racist to call someone of another race "boy".
It's not racist to say that a country's leadership is acting childish. Heck it would actually be racist if someone were to say "all Indians are childish." But that's not what happened.
People call other people childish all the time without a hint of racist intent.