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Old 10-05-2008, 12:39 PM   #59
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In case you never noticed, both those countries are becoming more democratic as each year goes by.

In fact, India can already be CALLED a democracy.

Still don't get your point. Nobody ever said the US was perfect, or Canada, or any other country that amplifies a democratic 'free' state....but we all KNOW it is the best way.

You should be glad that you can have this conversation right now, because apparently in China certain websites get 'blocked.'

At least that is what they said during the Olympics.

Gotta love government control. And the people who defend it.
Lumping India in with China is so unfair. India could be called the other great democratic experiment, along with the US. What you have is a thriving and complicated mess of ethnicities and religions all competing with one another. The Indians have not chosen to go with a state-centred coercive model, like the Chinese, but have instead chosen the secular model of democratic compromise. It has its flaws, but you have to respect what they are trying to do there and the incredible degree of difficulty they face.
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