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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Yes I have been outside of North America. Europe (western, eastern, yugaslavia, scandiavia, russia), Asia, Australia, Latin America. Currently living in the USA at the moment. I have relatives that I frequently talk to in Denmark and Hong Kong. I grew up in Canada, obviously, and I'm currently living in the USA in California, probably one of the states that has the biggest segregation between the rich and everyone else.
moon, may I ask what you do for a living, and when did you travel to these countries? I was in China in 1996 and against in 2007, very different country.
I base alot of my comments on a economy by its education, knowledge and long term prospects. Not political. Look at China's progress, and India. Then look at the USA. Yes India is shakey politically, and China is progressively changing their policies, but to me, both seem to have stronger education and (job) work ethic, and a stronger system and long term prospects. Look at the GDP of China over the past 10 years, look at the IT growth in China. And, look at the USA over the past 10 years and what has been driving the economy. Then come back and tell me you have a hard time believing China and India will move past the USA.
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I work in the Oil and Gas industry.
I have travelled overseas since I was a kid back in 1990.
Most recently was in India September 2007.
I haven't been to China so I can't speak to it completed, which was why I focused on India in the post, but unless everyone in the world is lying there are still huge issues in China that they need to focus on themselves.
I have worked with Chinese companies though as recently as 6 months ago and if these are any indication of how China and communism operates (and it would appear there are issues that I found that could be related to communism) then they are a long way from being successful.