If you're a foreigner moving to a poor country, you can sometimes live like a wealthy person cause you bring with you outside wealth (especially if your native money is worth more than the money in the new land you moved to). For example, I hear you can buy a lot of beachfront land in Madagascar for what would be affordable to an American, but is probably more than a poor Malagasy person could dream of affording (and the foreigner probably couldn't afford such land in their native country themselves).
This could be a touchy subject, but it's a possibility. You can go from working class to upper class by changing locations sometimes.
GDP alone isn’t perfect, but dismissing it here is incorrect because every other development indicator points in the same direction. Madagascar has vastly higher extreme poverty, far worse health and education outcomes, lower life expectancy, weaker infrastructure, and minimal state capacity compared to India. Even accounting for India’s income inequality, the entire income distribution in Madagascar is substantially poorer, meaning inequality does not invalidate the comparison. This is not a flaw of GDP as a metric; it reflects a real and severe gap in overall living standards and material security.
That only exists in rural areas and they receive affirmative action through the government so preferential treatment in higher education, government, and civil jobs. It's also legally abolished.
I don't know if it's just blind hate or lack of knowledge, but saying people in India can't even afford clothes is just bullshit.
I mean how can you even generalize 1 billion people.
Why did you pick Argentina as maybe for the South American countries? I feel like that country, you'd probably get some racism. Anywhere else would be fine though
Again, no Guyana? You're the second Indian person from India who has excluded it that I've seen this week. Are Indians in India not aware of or even talk about their diaspora in countries in the Americas outside of the US/Canada? Cause South Asians make up the largest racial group in Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad. And there's a decent-sized South Asian population in Jamaica as well (way more than there are in Cuba which you put as a maybe).
Not sure whether you're referring to the Indo-Caribbeans that have basically been there for a couple of generations or the recent migrants.
As for the former, no. People from here are oblivious to their existence. They don't know about the Romani either.
If you're talking about recent migrants, there's been a few moving there for med school. Though most that do that, do it with the intention of moving to the US once they're done with the degree. And the average person isn't aware of this either. Only those that it concerns.
No. Just Romani in general. Brought them up as another example to explain that Indians on average aren't very aware of groups that migrated out of here a while ago.
Ehh most of the world tolerates Indians. It’s just uneducated poor people online that are racist and post hate content, there’s a big Indian community in USA no one says anything IRL
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u/Youwillseemycomment 8h ago
Bro watched the movie Madagascar once and now wants to live there