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Originally Posted by peter12
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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I do respect their system, and the fact that they're trying, at least in a certain way, to provide their people with a certain level of democratic freedom.
In the long run I actually think India will be more successful than China. Barring a complete switch to democracy by the Chinese.