[Vision2020] Indian population factiod

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 3/15/2013 4:21 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:
> If our government wants to win friends and influence people (as the 
> saying goes) in India . . . BUILD SCHOOLS!

I wonder if their cultural caste system gets in the way of the 
traditional American idea of classless mobility based on personal 
initiative toward work and school.

Schools certainly are a good idea as indoctrination, pacification, and 
social control institutions, not to mention education delivery conduits 
for the ideas favored by those in real control of the production, 
property, and political patriarchy of the populace. However, wide 
diversity and religious differences may make agreeing on curricula in 
India more difficult, so the "do nothing" alternative has been adopted 
more frequently there.

> Something we should have considered doing in Afghanistan years and 
> years ago.

Americans have been dancing among and around the spilled contents of a 
box of lit firecrackers in the Middle East since the end of World War 
II.  Never mind that we lit many of them ourselves.


Ken

> Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
>
> On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com 
> <mailto:kmmos1 at frontier.com>> wrote:
>
>> According to the census of India web site 
>> http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/indiaatglance.html there 
>> were 431,739,302 illiterate persons in the country's 2011 population 
>> of 1,210,193,422.  That number of illiterates is more than 137 
>> percent of the entire United States population.
>>
>> http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/indiaatglance.html
>>
>>
>> Ken


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