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Two possibilities here: either you know the answer and you're being disingenuous.. or you dont know and are thus ignorant. INDIA is third-world because they have 160 million Muslims whose incomes, education and status rank way beneath the majority Hindus. There are 160 million Muslims because starting in 700 AD, the Islamic MidEast launched a massive invasion and extermination campaign .. where they demplished Hindu civilization and slaughtered an estimated 80 million Hindus. You should know that before Islam, Hindu India's GNP and leve of advacement far exceeded Europe. At that time, we were third world while they were first world. OUR ancestors, Europeans, lived further away from the toxic Sandy Arabia (where the sh*thole ideology originated), so we escaped the holocaust which nearly wiped out Hindu civilization. Hence we get to beat our chests smugly and assert our superior first world status. All because of a twist of geography.... the fact that Muslim invaders were so far away that they were exhausted and easily defeated by Charles Martel at Tours. ALso at the gates of Vienna. People who know nothing about the history of nations (or their own history for that matter) .. should not even be allowed to opine about issues like ...duuuhhhh.. 'why is india third world, while canada is first world'. But we have democracy... so everyone is allowed to have an opinion... so opinions are as common as the a^^holes who spout them. DOnt worry tho: we Canadians have stupid LIberals, who have allowed those very same Muslims to immigrate here..so we shall soon be third world ..our smug chest-thumping days are coming to an end .. just as Hindu chest thumpers were silnced after 700 AD.

Lost in this discussion is Banerjee's point : WHY THE DIFFERENCE WITH THE USA? I have done some research on this, and he is correct: American Hindus have the HIGHEST per capita income of all ethnic groups, including double that of white Americans. US hospitals are full of Indian doctors at the highest level, an example being DR SANJAY GUPTA of CNN fame. I thimk the answer has gotta be the calibre of 'South Asian' coming in. Would it be racist for me to say (as Banerjee has done) that one difference is that America brings in less Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Muslims, Punjabis/Sikhs.... and more of the 'right sort' (yes, dreadfully elitist thinking.. so shoot me). One colleague in the States told me that in some years, US companies simply walk into the graduating class of the top IITs in India and offer all grads six figure salaries. Do Canadian firms do that? Do Canadians even realize how great these people are... or do we just believe that all brown folks are the same?