Re: Want to read something funny? Am I Indian or Australian? You decid
I remember reading a Kuwaiti news article in 2008 which goes on to say how South Asians are treated badly in Kuwait and yer their own technological achievement was opening a indigenous potato chips factory that year, while comparing themselves to indian space advancements and Bangladeshi textile industry.
However I would be Interested to know your opinions on indian work ethics.
Indians are good workers, they have a sense of purposeful effort, which is what I wrote about in my previous post in this thread. If Indians didn't have a sense of purposeful effort coupled with ambition, they wouldn't be collectively the most highly paid immigrant group in the U.S., which they are. And Indians are good, logical thinkers, which is why so many are in IT writing programs and all the other IT-related work they do, as well as in other applied sciences and in theoretical and natural sciences. Sri Lankans are similar but mainly in other areas, such as commerce. Nepalis, or Nepalese, are good, diligent workers, I've noticed, and when set a task they really concentrate on it and get their teeth into it, that is, they work hard at the task until it is completed. It is not a South Asian issue: it is a social and societal and work-culture issue.
Moslems are so involved in their religion, that they cannot see that their beliefs are simply not conducive to progress through purposeful and productive work. There is a piety-over-effort mentality. There is an "Allah-will-provide" mentality.
Why is it that the overwhelming majority of Islamic countries are underdeveloped, many impoverished? Why are there no really highly developed and highly industrialised Islamic countries? Islam has been around since the 7th century, and what has it contributed to the modern world? Where are there Muslim Nobel Prize winners for science or medicine?
Some Moslems point to the showcase cities of the UAE or Qatar as examples of development in the Islamic world, but the UAE's cities and Doha are but a fraction of the Moslem or Islamic world. Most of the money to build Abu Dhabi and Dubai and Doha came from oil revenues, especially initially in the 1970s, and still comes from oil revenues to a large extent, it was not and is not generated by any real industry other than oil production. And the technical expertise to build them came from and still comes from the West, much of it British, and the labour, damn near slave labour, comes from Pakistan, and Nepal, but much of the organisation of it all is Western, and much of it is run or managed by Westerners, not Arabs, many are Brits under contract to work in the UAE.
Islam as a religion, culture, social, and political system is clearly not conducive to material progress on a national scale in the modern world. And Moslems have got to ask themselves, why is that?
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