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It's not a niche market, it's mainstream enough for people who don't listen to Kpop to know what it is. Those Kpop groups have enough fans in the West to get their songs to chart in the top 50 in Western countries. Not to mention the success of Squid Game in the Western world in late 2021. It may be largely forgotten now but that drama had such a bizarre impact on English-speaking Western countries at the time. It really is quite surreal thinking about some of the bizarre stuff that happened in the months after that drama came out, all because almost everybody had watched it.
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@boy_ngiwi Jpop was popular only in East Asia and some parts of Southeast Asia. Taiwanese pop culture also only became popular in East Asia and parts of Southeast Asia. There is truly only one form of Asian entertainment that has actually managed to become popular across the entire continent of Asia and I mean all the way to Central Asian countries like Uzbekistan and remote locations like Bhutan or Nepal too and that's Korean pop culture. There has been no other Asian country that has managed to dominate pop culture in Asia in the way South Korea has. South Korea truly reigns supreme in Asia in terms of pop culture and influence.
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He spoke about India and Australia at the end.
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Singapore is most definitely not anti-Chinese. It's a bona fide neutral nation because of how small it is.
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Korean dramas were always more popular than Kpop until recently. It's only when the Korean Wave began to truly become popular in the West that Kpop surpassed Korean dramas in popularity. Before that, it was always Korean dramas over Kpop (especially in Asian countries like China, Japan, Cambodia and Nepal).
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You do know that Korean pop culture was popular in Asian countries long before the West even knew about it right? The Korean Wave started in Asia. The soft power of Korea is not because of the West (which you ought to be specific and just say the US), it's because of other Asian countries.
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I hope they never pick a side because they, like China, are seen as a representative of the developing world. India refusing to pick a side is also helping other developing countries stand by their belief in neutrality.
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Nowhere near as big as the Korean Wave, which is now popular all over the world. Popularity of BL dramas is largely centred on Southeast Asia and China and to some extent India, Japan and South Korea. The average non-Asian has heard of Kpop but not Thai BL.
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@mefisto05s.20 Brazil is a newly industralised country, they always had the opportunities to progress to high income status but they didn't. Their social indicators are still good and better than India.
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Actually that isn't likely to happen. A survey in Southeast Asia released this month revealed that most Southeast Asians prefer to keep trading with China even if it invades Taiwan. I'm sure this will be the case for the rest of Asia. Asian countries refuse to pick sides and focus on themselves. This is why in 2019 during the Hong Kong protests when China issued the Hong Kong National Security Law at the UN, most Asian countries supported China or they abstained (including India). Most countries that opposed the law were Western countries. Only 1 Asian country opposed it and that was Japan (a country that has a long history of wanting to be associated with the West). Back in 2017, when a bill to condemn the Rohingya genocide was issued at the UN, most Asian countries abstained with mostly Western and Muslim-majority nations supporting the bill. The mentality of neutrality, not judging and keeping your head down is very strong in the Asian region and it's not easy to change.
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@MarcSebastian-pi5he Singapore was dirt poor. It was not rich. It built itself up on its own.
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Wait till you find out that most of the world is neutral on the Ukraine War and does not want to take part in it. The Global South wants nothing to do with it.
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@mefisto05s.20 Nothing vague and incorrect about what I said.
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@mefisto05s.20 Notice how you didn't provide a response that supposedly corrects these facts you claim are "incorrect"?
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@John_Doe448 That's not what they're talking about. They're talking about how the CCP kept quiet and did not tell anybody about what was happening because they only cared about their reputation. Then when they did inform the WHO, they lied and said things like "it doesn't spread between humans" knowing very well it did. When word began to spread in other parts of Asia that a new virus had emerged in China, precautions were implemented straight away knowing well China has a reputation being quiet because it's exactly what they did almost 20 years prior to that in the early 2000s when SARS emerged. That's why international students in China went back to their countries in late 2019 after authorities informed families of an uncertain development in Wuhan and why you could see people began wearing masks across Asia from Thailand to Sri Lanka to Japan as soon as 2020 began, long before the virus started spreading rapidly internationally from March 2020 onwards.
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@andrewdunbar828 Malaysia is on track to becoming a high income developed nation later this decade but the World Bank has said the country suffers from a few issues that is preventing the country from reaching this status. Corruption is one and the other is the country's brain drain which is powered by the country's decision to legally discriminate against non-indigenous and non-Muslim minorities (Bumiputera law). Large numbers of the educated Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians continue to leave Malaysia for Singapore and Australia in droves. As a result, the country is continuing to lose large numbers of its educated population. There is a reason why most Australians with Malaysian heritage are ethnically Chinese and to some extent ethnically Indian.
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@davidford3115 No, it reeks of hegemony. So if Sri Lanka is India's backyard, India's front yard must be China and the USA's front yard must be Canada. The terminology doesn't make sense and there is a reason this language is only used by Indian and American media.
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@davidford3115 While other countries use terminology like "India's neighbourhood", there are proponents in other parts of the world who use "India's backyard", indicating some type of ownership.
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@davidford3115 Now you're talking about perspective but I don't see it because a backyard belongs to someone, which is why the terminology is a red flag and why the Asian region is wary of both Chinese and American aggression.
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@harmonyshorts You don't say "India's backyard". You say "in proximity to India and the Maldives". People always forget the Maldives even though that country is close to Sri Lanka too and let's face it, it's linguistically and ethnically very close to Sri Lanka. Mind you, I highly doubt any of these people know where India is either...
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@davidford3115 A whole lot of words were used just to say nothing...
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@davidford3115 It most definitely reeks of hegemony but you refuse to see it and of course it can apply to anyone. I'm just talking about India in this case but because I mentioned the US you suddenly said "anti-West". I live in a Western country, I was born in a Western country. You want to call me "anti-West" for calling out the power struggle that China and the US are playing out here in the Asia-Pacific?
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@davidford3115 You support the idea of describing an independent nation like Sri Lanka "India's backyard", indicating a sign of ownership but will become hysterical if somebody were to refer to "Mexico's backyard" as the US.
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@davidford3115 You know you using a whole of words just to say nothing doesn't help your point, right? You haven't actually given anything of substance to explain your reasoning and haven't refuted anything I have said. All I see is a man using all this jargon to present himself as smarter, more sophisticated and intelligent when the truth is there is actually nothing upstairs but a dictionary and thesaurus spewing out random words to inflate his broken ego.
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@xcutioner5411 Th Korean Wave began in China in the 1990s and ultimately spread to the rest of Asia by the 2000s. We are now in 2023 and the Korean Wave in Asia is bigger than it ever was and is now popular all over the world. I really don't see it ending anytime soon. It's been popular for decades. What country are you from by the way?
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@iamgreat1234 No. The majority of Singaporeans speak English. 48.3% of Singaporeans speak English frequently at home compared to 29.9% of Singaporeans who speak Mandarin frequently at home. English is the lingua franca of the country, almost everybody in the country knows how to speak it.
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@Mr.Septon Sorry but the thing is nobody wants an Asian NATO here. That's what I'm saying. The establishment of something like that is going to lead to an arms race, militarisation and the forcing of nations to pick sides (something many nations in the region have spoken about not wanting to do). Finland joining NATO isn't comparable to the situation in Asia because there is no NATO-like organisation like that in Asia. You believe a military alliance is the answer and as I said before, the creation of such a military alliance will lead to an arms race and the militarisation of Asia. The situation in Europe is not like the situation in Asia. Asian and Pacific nations want to maintain healthy ties with China. This is why Australia's new government has done a 180 and begun mending ties with China. People in the region also don't want outsiders to get involved, past "foreign" wars like Vietnam War and the more recent Afghanistan War have left a very bad taste in people's mouths. I'm from Australia, you may be surprised to hear that many people prefer to maintain good ties with China even though we don't agree on a lot of things.
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@darkz1563 Almost all people experienced their culture? No, that's wrong. Hardly anybody knows anything about that country's culture.
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Y'all can never ever take criticism, this is why India is lagging behind.
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I think some people will be surprised to hear that many Australians actually want good relations with China and don't want to rely so heavily on the US. People have actually commended out new foreign minister for trying to improve ties with China. The thing is, Australia and China are in the same region. So the reality is that one has to find ways to get along even if they don't agree on everything. China and Australia don't have eye to eye but before the pandemic and Australia's decision to push even closer to the US, China and Australia were still able to get along.
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It's the same thing...
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@paulfri1569 No it doesn't. I live in the Asia-Pacific, it means everything from India to French Polynesia.
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Well one reason why people learn Korean in other Asian countries is because many Asians (Chinese, Southeast, South and Central Asians) go to South Korea to work or go there as international students. Then yes, there are those people who are obsessed with Korean pop culture and so learn Korean so they can become Koreanised.
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@mefisto05s.20 Yes it is. Brazil is just another example of a middle income trapped nation. They have the opportunities but they don't use them.
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@off_grid_javelin India started in 1990 and they don't have much time left. They have wasted so many opportunities and continue to waste them. It's just talk but never action.
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@off_grid_javelin No, India will run out of time. Economic growth isn't infinite. India wasted a lot of time and now they're on the cusp of a demographic crisis.
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@tickletowntales I can tell you are offended by my statements but everything I said was the truth. Your comment consists of a whole lot of words but there is no clear point to it.
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@tickletowntales and yes I do believe India is running out of time. India's leaders consistently fail to see this but if people think India has an infinite amount of time to develop, then they are severely mistaken. Not everything is condescension or hate. Not everybody is out to get you.
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@dancingcar8974 You're so triggered lmaooooo, this is so funny to me. I'm laughing and you're behind that computer or phone so angry and furious with what I said
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@dancingcar8974 Not you crying lmao
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"Indo-Pacifc" means Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, has nothing to do with India.
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@xcutioner5411 There will be new groups. SNSD and Super Junior were replaced by Blackpink and BTS.
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@iamgreat1234 You must be living in an alternate universe. Most people in Singapore speak English
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@Mr.Septon Absolutely not. Sorry but the truth of the matter is that all of the Asia-Pacific nations you listed there (Japan, South Korea, Australia and India) will much prefer co-existence with China rather than making it a full fledged enemy. Nobody wants the EU, UK or Canada to get involved. These are nations so far away from the Indo-Pacific and are not going to be hurt if a war were to break out in the region, it's the nations in this region that will suffer the most because of how incredibly interconnected these nations are. The US is also criticised too because they are not part of the region but their heavy presence in the region is something that cannot be rid of so quickly. The reality is that many across the region (including Australia) recognise the fact that they don't see eye to eye with China but that shouldn't stop co-existence. Nobody wants war, nobody wants an arms race, nobody wants the militarisation of the whole region and nobody wants to pick and choose sides. Many outside of the region think the rest of the region is staunchly anti-China and will immediately fight against it but that is not the truth. The Trump presidency created a significant shift in the mentality of the region echoed at the various annual Asia-Pacific summits. Co-existence is what most desire today.
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@tellyboy17 Most of the Indo-Pacific's biggest trade partner is China and has been for a long time. We don't see eye to eye all the time but all of the nations in this region (including Japan, South Korea and India) don't want war and are more interested in co-existence. Australia's mentality is no different to the rest of the region. The US wants all of us to pick a side though but we're the ones that will be hurt if the US and China go to war in our region.
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Same thing
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Y'all have to realise that Japan was once a poor nation too and in the decades after WW2, Japan was dirt poor. Singapore was dirt poor too. It only had a national income of US$500, that is not the definition of "rich". Modern Mozambique has a national income of US$500 today, are you going to tell me that Mozambique is not a "poor place"? 💀💀
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The military committed the genocide against Rohingyas. I can't believe you'd support the military. That's why you need to do your research before you say such things.
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So you trust a Laotian man that lives in the US and not the actual Burmese people that are risiking their lives and posting updates on what is happening in the country on social media before the internet shuts down. Why am I not surprised? There is a reason why the US is stereotyped as an uneducated country.
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You Americans think all Asians are the same. Just look, you're believing the words of a Laotian and applying that to Myanmar. Oh goodness.
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Exactly, nobody wants to hear about Q*tar. The 2022 World Cup was enough. No more.
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No you don't. Asia-Pacific is the term that has ben used for so long. It's only under Trump that the term "Indo-Pacific" became more common.
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@paulfri1569 Y'all getting triggered over the most meaningless of things...
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@Learningram It doesn't because India's top 10% own most of the country's wealth.
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@davidford3115 Sorry it seems I have been too judgemental and assumed the worst by grouping you with those other people without knowing anything about you. I can see after talking to you that you are rather different to those people that do fetishise. So apologies to you. Yep I agree, not many know about Greco-Buddhism which is a shame because the civilisation that emerged from the two was quite beautiful. It also happens to be that Greco-Buddhist civilisation lies in an area of modern Asia that now no longer practices Eastern philosophical traditions, which may explain why not many people know about it so it doesn't become an incentive for tourism or anything like that. Yeah I imagine it would be a lot different had those Eastern philosophies travelled to Europe (particularly with Alexander the Great). New traditions derived from those Eastern traditions would have also emerged in Europe and syncretism with European pagan beliefs may have transpired too (akin to the way Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism were syncretised with local folk beliefs of Southeast Asia, Himalayas, Japan and regional areas of China and India). Interesting points you made about the Shinto gods, I do think that people in Europe may have been more receptive towards Eastern traditions had the indigenous European religions continued to dominate Europe. Syncretism would have been easier due to fluidity. The rigidity of the Abrahamic faiths always made it harder to accept other belief systems, which is why they all disappeared in Europe.
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It's culturally a Western country. The dominant cultural system in the country is Western and that's not going to change ever. When people say "Western" they mean "culture" these days. Australia is not culturally "Eastern" like China, India or Japan. There is a large Asian-descended population in the country, with some having roots dating back to colonial days but that is not the dominant cultural system. Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia once said that Australia will become "more Asian" in the future and maybe the country will become "Eurasian" culturally speaking but that will still mean a significant Western cultural element continues to exist. Mainland Australia, in the future, may feel like Christmas Island (overseas Australian island territory) which is a blend of Asian and Western cultures, the result of Chinese, Malay and Indian settlers from Singapore/Malaya and the British and Irish settlers who came afterwards. It will still be culturally Western though.
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@ambujverma695 It's true
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@TyroneBeiron If anything it's a CMIO (Chinese, Malay, Indian, Other - Eurasian) nation
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@aprilchan3726 Your name says it all. Rohingyas were considered part of Myanmar until the citizenship law in 1982. Prior to 1982, there were Rohingyas in the Burmese government. Don't speak about things you don't understand.
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@aprilchan3726 Just to make it easier for me? Why would you mention India? I'm not even from there. This has nothing to do with India. Like I said before, it's very clear. I know where you stand. Don't pretend that you have more of a right over others. I can see right through it. Yes there were issues regarding the Rohingyas that created tension but if you did your research you'd know that the British played a prominent role in what happened during WWII in Myanmar. I don't need to give you sources. If you actually cared about getting your facts straight instead of believing the Tatmadaw's propaganda, you wouldn't be asking me that because it's right there in English on the internet. I'm someone who prefers to accept reality as it is. I know what happened, I know there were issues with the Rohingyas, I know the historical baggage but I also know that the Tatmadaw is the cause for what we are seeing today. Prior to 2012, things were not as bad as they are currently now in Rakhine State.
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@aprilchan3726 What I said is true. It's not sudden. They want to be part of it because they are part of Burmese society. The Tatmadaw stripping off their citizenship isn't going to change reality. There was no issue with Rohingya during the Arakan kingdom days. You really have no idea of what you're talking about. Go read some books.
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@aprilchan3726 You're talking about comprehension skills but you can't even comprehend this basic piece of information. Tell me how on earth can a government strip a population off their citizenship if they were never a part of the country to begin with? You can't strip a population off their citizenship if they never had citizenship in the first place. For the Rohingyas to be stipped off their citizenship in 1982 proves that they were part of the nation before 1982. They became stateless in 1982 after they lost their Burmese nationality. Understand now? Is this clear to you or do I need to spell it out for you again? Educate yourself on the 1982 Citizenship Act and understand that Rohingyas were left out of the act before you start speaking about this topic.
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@aprilchan3726 Can't stay on topic? All I've been doing is sticking to the topic. Notice how you're running around in circles parroting the same old stuff knowing well that what I said is right there online for you to read? Did you even watch the video you sent me???? He literally spoke about the 1982 Citizenship Act which excluded Rohingyas from Burmese nationality. Goodness gracious, you're claiming I don't understand a thing and then here you are sending me a video that supports exactly what I've been talking about.
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@aprilchan3726 False? False? False? What I explained in my previous comments are detailed in the video you provided a link for in your other comment. Throwing a tantrum and telling me that it's false isn't going to change reality. It is what it is. He literally mentioned the 1982 citizenship law right before he spoke about the regulations. WATCH THE VIDEO.
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@aprilchan3726 Get your facts straight before you comment for goodness sake. You don't know what you're talking about.
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@aprilchan3726 1. They sided with the British because they were bribed into thinking they were getting their own state. 2. There was no Bangladesh until 1971. 3. I think it's pretty clear to see that Rohingyas of today want to be part of Burmese society. You have many Burmese activists of Rohingya descent like Wai Wai Nu who are fighting for democracy in Myanmar.
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@aprilchan3726 Your comments have proven to me why Myanmar is still so far behind. While some ex-colonies manage to move so far forward for the betterment of their citizens, some countries still hang onto the past and fail to understand the importance of building bridges and starting new. I don't know if you're a Buddhist or not but this really isn't the way to go. It's the way you generalise and fail to realise that people can change. You're one of those people who believed the Tatmadaw so there's really nothing I can say to change your mind. All I can say is that many members of Gen Z, especially those on the frontline fighting, are the ones that believe in ethnic unity and recognise the Rohingyas. It seems like they have the mentality that extraordinary leaders like Lee Kuan Yew and S Rajaratnam (both of Singapore) had in terms of building ethnic harmony and unity. If you're more interested in holding grudges and burning bridges, then so be it. We can't change your mind.
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@aprilchan3726 I'm just talking about you not supporting Rohingyas and believeing they all deserve to be punished. That's what I'm commenting on. Your comments show that you don't care about them or like them. Is that not correct? I'm not talking about anything else that you don't or do support, I'm just talking about your belief that Rohingyas don't deserve rights in Myanmar. I'm not assuming anything. I'm commenting on what you have published here. Try to rationalise? No, how about you try and rationalise things from both perspectives? Up until 2012, there was no issue with Rohingyas. Yes Rohingyas have no rights in Myanmar but Rakhine villagers were living side by side with Rohingyas in Maungdaw and Buthidaung until the ethnic riots of 2012. You keep harking on about defense this defense that and I'm defending Myanmar and all this stuff but you're just masquerading your bigotry behind this belief. If you genuinely had a heart, you would move on. Most Rohingyas don't deserve this but no matter what you say you believe that they do. You keep speaking as if Rohingyas are the ones to blame. Have you thought about what the Rakhine people have done? It takes two to tango. Both Rohingya and Rakhine are to blame. You see, I'm rationalising things from both perspectives - you aren't. This is why I said that Myanmar is still so far behind. Look south and you see Singapore which has managed to pull itself out of ethnic division to create an ethnically harmonious nation. Malaysia doesn't have a good track record in terms of ethnic unity but it's so much better than Myanmar's way of managing diversity. Myanmar had so much potential but now look at it now. What a waste.
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@aprilchan3726 1. No you believe all Rohingyas deserve punishment. Stop behaving like this. I can see all of your bigoted replies throughout this entire comment section. Crying because people keep talking about the Rohingyas. 2. I never have blamed Aung San Suu Kyi or the civilian government. The military is to blame. Accept this. 3. Crying to me and throwing a tantrum because you can't accept the fact that both sides are to blame isn't going to change this. 4. I know that before 2012 there were issues but there was a sense of calm of anf if you actually cared to listen to Rakhine people who live in Maungdaw you'd know that they said they would go to Rohingya shops and Rohingya children would play with Rakhine children. 5. There were Rohingyas in the Burmese government prior to the military takeover in the 1960s. In fact, there was a Rohingya politician who won the seat of Maungdaw in 1990. So prior to 1982, Rohingyas were (de facto) treated as a part of Burmese society. It's not my problem that you're clueless about these facts and are instead parroting propaganda because you're more interested in defending the Tatmadaw. Facts over feelings. You stating all this stuff isn't going to change the fact the Rohingyas were treated as a part of Burmese society by their representation in Burmese politics. Go cry about it. 6. No you didn't win the argument. You're just running around in cirlces claiming i'm ignorant when I am fully educated on this topic. Also, no I will never delete my comments. Why would I? Everything I said is correct. It is you that should delete your comments after failing to get your facts straight, not once, not twice but three times. Please, this whole thing is so funny.
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@davidford3115 India's backyard? Sri Lanka is not India's backyard. This "India's backyard", "China's backyard" etc. is why the Asia-Pacific is so wary of these power-hungry countries gaining control of the region.
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@davidford3115 I don't expect someone from the US to understand the issue of such overbearing terminology. For the US, the whole world is their playground which is why they're trying to force countries in the Asia-Pacific to pick the side of the US and refuse to just accept our view that we don't want to be caught up in their China war.
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@davidford3115 Three posts after one another is not me throwing a temper tantrum, it's because for some reason I can't post long replies using the device I post comments on. So you can stop assuming.
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@davidford3115 You haven't made a single point. You're using a lot of jargon just to say nothing and calling me "Anti-Western" and "Anglophobic" and all these things. It's typical of people today, call someone "(something)phobic" and call it a day and think they've made a point. Embarrassing but we all know you'd be very upset if someone were to call the USA "Mexico's backyard" and how convenient of you to ignore this when I brought it up days ago. People who believe in national supremacy and hegemony will never understand, they only want power and control. Small countries and less powerful countries belong to them in their eyes.
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@davidford3115 Actually I have. I told you that such terminology is indicative of hegemony as it indicates ownership. Sri Lanka does not belong to India, so how on earth is it "India's backyard"? You never responded to that. Instead you're using random jargon and ranting about Marxism, Anglophobia and all this random things because you don't know what to actually say. You think you're making a point by constructing this "holier than thou" mentality but all I see is arrogance and toxicity.
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@davidford3115 There is only one person here who needs to get over themselves and it's not me. Due to their mentality of hegemony and national supremacy, these people do not understand how narrow their thoughts are. He speaks about anti-colonialism as if that's a bad thing. Nobody in the Asia-Pacific wants to be a colony and nobody in this region wants to be pushed around by China or the US. You are just deeply upset that I (and many others in this part of the world) are pushing back against the views you support. Accept it. We don't like to use such terminology "[insert country's name]'s backyard]" because it indicates ownership. So if you're going to speak on what happens to countries in this part of the world, look beyond your American perspective.
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@davidford3115 Notice how you only described Arizona, Texas, and California as "Mexico's backyard"? No, the whole of the USA is "Mexico's backyard" according to your logic. Accept it or get over it.
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@davidford3115 You don't know what to say so you said that instead. You will never understand the perspective of nations that do not aim to enforce hegemony over other countries.
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@davidford3115 So when you can't accept other people's views, you resort to name calling? Typical. I mean that's all you've been doing this whole time. I don't need to touch grass. You just need to understand the fact that most people do not believe in this terminology of "[insert country name]'s backyard" unlike some people in certain countries. We don't believe independent nations belong to other countries so we don't use this "[insert country name]'s backyard", a backyard belongs to a house. So why on earth would we say "[insert country name]'s backyard"????? Why is this so hard for you to understand?????
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@davidford3115 This has nothing to do with isolationism... 🤦‍♂ Virtue signalling? I see more mainstream American jargon is being. Please, just give us a break...
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@davidford3115 He won't get off that high horse... imagine how tired we are
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The country is no longer socialist.
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It needs to be appealing
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Well India's fertility rate is already below replacement level, so don't expect them to have a population explosion this century.
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No offence but nobody is going to obsess over a country like Qatar or any of those Arab Gulf states. They haven't built themselves up in the way South Korea or Singapore or any of those nations have for anybody to have respect for them. They extracted oil, sold it and got blue and white collar workers from all over Asia, Africa and the West to do everything for them. Not to mention a multitude of other reasons as to why they have such a negative perception on the global stage. The only time I have ever seen such universal negative remarks directed towards a country, it has always been towards a Gulf nation. I am yet to see a single positive comment about any of those nations. The closest I have seen are defenders of Arab Gulf states who all happen to be from other Arabic-speaking Muslim-majority nations but that doesn't count at all.
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Only 10% of India's population is rich, they're the ones that hold most of the country's wealth. All those Indian billionaires we see on international rankings are the ones who own the country's wealth. The average citizen is far from rich.
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@balajeepratham8200 No because the US is a high income nation, India is not. India is still a lower middle income nation where its high economic growth rate hasn't changed the living standards for the poorest people of India's population.
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@balajeepratham8200 India's economic rise benefits the ultrarich like the Ambanis and Adanis. They're the face of India's economic rise, not the average Indians you see here posting comments online. India's rise is lop sided because it only benefits a small portion of the country.
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Rohingyas don't persecute non-Muslims in Myanmar. Why do you all lie? Anytime I see you on one of these videos about Myanmar, I see that all of you do nothing but lie. Stop it.
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Yeah nobody is idolising Qatar
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@Ynhockey True but as you said, Qatar is known for the wrong reasons only. There is actually nothing positive associated with that country, that's why it has such a negative perception. Their influence is also not far reaching, only within the Arab or maybe more broadly Muslim world but beyond that, the influence is non-existent.
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Why would Sri Lanka want to join India? People have got to stop thinking that joining a large country is how you solve problems... it's not.
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@DonesdeMotivacion Most Sri Lankans are Buddhists, most Sri Lankans speak Sinhalese, Sri Lankans are ethnically Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay, Burgher/Eurasian, Vedda and even Chinese. Sri Lankan culture is a mix of South Indian, Malay and indigenous influences.
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@DonesdeMotivacion Most Indians are Hindus. Most Indians speak Hindi (those who speak Tamil in India are a minority group unrelated to the people in India who hold power). Indian culture is not a blend of indigenous Sri Lankan, South Indian and Malay influences, it's a lot more diverse than that. India is very ethnically diverse and is not home to Sinhalese, Moors, Malays, Burghers/Eurasians and Vedda, even the Sri Lankan Tamils have their own distinct culture compared to Indian Tamils. People have got to start learning the difference between different nations instead of assuming they are the same just because they can't tell the difference between the people of those countries.
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@DonesdeMotivacion THEY'RE NOT ALL GENETICALLY THE SAME. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE. This is like me claiming Italians and Greeks are genetically the same. There is only one person here who is ignorant and it's not me. American people have got to stop talking about things they don't understand. Let people in Asia-Pacific figure out what to do, there is no need for someone on the other side of the world to give their unwanted two cents about something they don't understand.
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@DonesdeMotivacion Imagine a Latino person on the other side of the world speaking about an issue that doesn't even concern them and then when someone corrects them, they refuse to acknowledge their errors. American exceptionalism in a nutshell.
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@DonesdeMotivacion People are getting tired of the US because they're sticking their nose into everybody's business and telling people how they must identify and how they should behave. There is a reason why China is now so powerful.
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How can you say that Aung San Suu Kyi is not a fan of Rohingyas or non-Buddhists? Some of her closest political allies are Burmese Muslims.
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@archonmarch3965 Yes but that doesn't negate the fact that she has Muslim members in her government. Bamar Muslims are culturally very similar to the Bamar Buddhists. The Burmese military are the people who kicked out all of the Rohingyas out of the Burmese government in the late 20th century.
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@archonmarch3965 1. Bamar Muslims and Bamar Buddhists eat the same food, use the same names, wear the same clothes, speak the same language. They're culturally similar. That's what I'm talking about here 2. It's very easy to judge from the outside without actually putting yourself in one's shoes. The very fact that ASSK was arrested is a clear indicator that she never had full control. She was a puppet. There is a reason why she was called the "de facto" leader of the country and not the "de jure" leader of the country. She was never official in the way other heads of states are.
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@archonmarch3965 That is culture. Full stop. Ever heard of cultural diffusion? Chili peppers may have originated in the Americans but they are firmly part of the culinary cultures of South and Southeast Asia. Christianity didn't originate in Europe yet it's an integral part of the religious heritage of Europeans, whether Christian or non-Christian. Bamar Muslims and Bamar Buddhists are culturally similar. I have no idea why you are responding like this. What is it that you don't like?
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@archonmarch3965 She was the de factor leader of Myanmar, aka the de facto head of state in the country. It doesn't matter how you feel about her, she was out there representing Myanmar at international forums because she was the de facto leader of the country. Extend the same courtesy to you? I haven't been rude to you. This also has nothing to do with the West so if you think a Western person's opinion on this is lesser than yours because you don't live in the West, then you're wrong.
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No offence but nobody is going to obsess over a country like Qatar or any of those Arab Gulf states. They haven't built themselves up in the way South Korea or Singapore or any of those nations have for anybody to have respect for them. They extracted oil, sold it and got blue and white collar workers from all over Asia, Africa and the West to do everything for them. Not to mention a multitude of other reasons as to why they have such a negative perception on the global stage. The only time I have ever seen such universal negative remarks directed towards a country, it has always been towards a Gulf nation. I am yet to see a single positive comment about any of those nations. The closest I have seen are defenders of Arab Gulf states who all happen to be from other Arabic-speaking Muslim-majority nations but that doesn't count at all.
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@ragglefraggle9111 India becoming number 1 is not because of extreme population growth, they will reach number 1 because of China's rapid fertility decline. India now has a below replacement level fertility at a rate of 2 nationally with their urban fertility (which is where living standards are the best) at 1.6.
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@2KSnSLifestyle India becoming number 1 is not because of extreme population growth, they will reach number 1 because of China's rapid fertility decline. India now has a below replacement level fertility at a rate of 2 nationally and their urban fertility (which is where living standards are the best) stands at 1.6.
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@2KSnSLifestyle That's why they need to focus on lifting living standards instead of discriminating against minorities, pandering to Hindutva nationalists, trying to control or claim neighbouring countries per their Hindutva beliefs and investing in better infrastructure so as to close the gap between rich and poor. Oh and they need to stop being so protectionist and join the RCEP. They had plenty of time to develop but wasted it. India being a democracy is one of the worst things that happened to that country imo. A developing Asian country is never going to succeed with leaders that come and go every 4 years which is what happens with democracy, it needs a hardline leader. India is so far behind because of democracy.
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@chiangchengkooi9791 That would spark an immense diplomatic protest from Singapore and Malaysia.
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Low standards? You think being compared to China is low? Are you not aware that China is light years ahead of India at this very moment? Be humble.
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@reddragon100 Yeah and that's what's problematic about India. There are nationalists in India who can't get along with their neighbours because they believe those neighbouring countries belong to them. It's just like China.
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@davidford3115 Being a developed country does not mean you can have a space program. Most developed countries do not have space programs and India is one of the main space powers of our time and they're a developing country. For a space program, you just need plenty of money to invest in technology and STEM and develop a space program worthy of being on the international stage. China may not be a high income country like Japan but it is close to becoming one and its living standards in it eastern coastal region are at the same level of development as those found in developed nations.
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@davidford3115 Back for more trolling? Are you that upset that I called you out the other day that you simply can't act like a grown up and just move on??????
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@davidford3115 Once again, you are jumping around the point and trying to make another point which is not what I am talking about. For goodness sake, stop being so bitter and move on.
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@davidford3115 It was a mistake for me to reply to you. I should have known this man doesn't have it in him to move on.
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@davidford3115 Learn not to poke a bear? I thought you were mature enough to move on and have a proper discussion but clearly not. Instead of continuously repeating "touch grass", why don't you go touch grass? You're the man who can't move on because he is still bitter and triggered by what I said. Go TOUCH GRASS because that's clearly what you need to do if you're still hollering about an argument that took place on a completely different video from a week ago.
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No, it's about diversifying. Relying on India only is not the solution.
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@aprilchan3726 Doesn't matter. The point is that the Burmese military is continuing to murder citizens, like they have always done.
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@samiitb Then India ought to be quiet.
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In my opinion, India is lagging behind because of democracy.
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Same thing.
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@mikelloyd520 The second includes India too. The two terms mean the same thing. Indo-Pacific became more common because the Trump administration began using it instead of Asia-Pacific.
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@mikelloyd520 Well to be fair, that's not the US definition. The definition of Asia-Pacific includes India, along with the rest of South Asia and Myanmar. I live in an Asia-Pacific country and at school we were always taught Asia-Pacific stretches from India/Pakistan to the Cook Islands/French Polynesia. There are many international products released in this part of the world which define the Asia-Pacific in the same way (e.g. Apple). Indo-Pacific is just another term to describe the same area that Asia-Pacific covers.
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@Kevin-fq3zh They're the rich ones but it's true that many, especially the men who live in that country, are overly patriotic and nationalistic. Too much of that does nothing good for a country. I think this is part of the reason why India can't progress because they can't criticise themselves and understand their flaws. Always get defensive, never self reflective.
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@pavan923 So you think Sri Lanka belongs to you?
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@pavan923 I'm not from Sri Lanka, I'm not a citizen of that country so you were saying?
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@pavan923 This "holier than thou" mentality that exists among sections of the Indian public is quite amusing to me. India is still a developing nation with extreme wealth inequality and they want to absorb another country into their territory without fixing the poverty that plagues their most populous states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar? Why it's because they believe in Akhand Bharat.
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@BruceWayne-qe7bs Sri Lankan Tamils are not Indians, they are natives of Sri Lanka.
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@BruceWayne-qe7bs You sound just like the CCP, I hope you know that.
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Its population being 70% ethnically Chinese doesn't mean it's pro-China. There is widespread anti mainland-China sentiment in Singapore directed towards Mainland Chinese immigrants of which Singaporeans, of all ethnic origins, claim they don't assimilate into Singapore's multicultural society and form cliques.
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@mefisto05s.20 Well it will be because it's been stuck as a lower middle income nation for so long, still hasn't progressed to upper middle income status and they can't plug their catastrophic brain drain.
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@off_grid_javelin India is still incredibly poor but their fertility rate is now below replacement level. Their urban fertility rate which is where most of the educated people live stands at 1.6. Their population will only grow for a couple ore decades before it reaches its peak. On top of that, they will be dealing with an aging population by the middle of this century. They don't have enough jobs for their educated so all of the young people leave the country. So India will also be suffering from chronic brain drain. None of that helps a developing country trying to become rich. India will probably become a middle income trapped nation.
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INDIA SUPER CLEAN 🇮🇳 What do you think you're even achieving by spamming everybody's notifications with this? You must be from Pakistan which is very funny because to us, you and Indians are all the same... if not worse so what now?
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@dancingcar8974 Not you getting offended at what I said (aka the truth)
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@dancingcar8974 Triggered because I stated facts lmaooooooooooooooooooooooo
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@dancingcar8974 If you weren't triggered you wouldn't be replying to me like this. Lmaoooooooooooooooooooooo
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@dancingcar8974 You're the one barking at me. If you're upset with what I said, come out and say it instead of being passive aggressive. 💀
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@dancingcar8974 This man is triggered by what I said but doesn't have the ability to address his concerns lmaooooooooooo
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@dancingcar8974 Firstly, everything I stated is the truth. Seethe, cry and cope. Secondly, you say you don't want to waste time but you're wasting your time replying to me with clown emojis. The irony and foolery... Nationalists and their pathetic behaviour.
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@dancingcar8974 You don't know what to say to me because everything I stated was a fact. So, you come here become passive aggressive under the impression that you're doing something but you're not. You're hurt by the facts that were stated so now you're throwing a tantrum. Lmaoooo Indian nationalists, they're all the same😂😂
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@dancingcar8974 Lmaooo the Indian nationalist is so triggered
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@dancingcar8974 Still triggered lol
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@dancingcar8974 You are so triggered by what I said about India. Nationalists make me laugh. Deep down you know what I said is true, that's why you're resorting to whatever this is lmaooooooo.
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It also means India won't ever fully develop and that's exactly what the US wants.
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They mean the same thing 💀
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@John_Doe448 The CCP is to blame but the US government is to blame as well. Why? It's because a Chinese dissident, Wei Jingsheng, had travelled to the US in late 2019 intending to speak to the US president (Trump) or someone close to him in order to inform them of a new virus spreading in China. This information fell on deaf ears at the US government and Dr Fauci, in the early days, downplayed a lot of the things that were happening because he and the NIH had been funding risky virus research in Wuhan.
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The CCP is to blame but the US government is to blame as well. Why? It's because a Chinese dissident, Wei Jingsheng, had travelled to the US in late 2019 intending to speak to the US president (Trump) or someone close to him in order to inform them of a new virus spreading in China. This information fell on deaf ears at the US government and Dr Fauci, in the early days, downplayed a lot of the things that were happening because he and the NIH had been funding risky virus research in Wuhan. So when you're blaming China, make sure you're blaming the US too.
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@deezeed2817 The CCP is to blame but the US government is to blame as well. Why? It's because a Chinese dissident, Wei Jingsheng, had travelled to the US in late 2019 intending to speak to the US president (Trump) or someone close to him in order to inform them of a new virus spreading in China. This information fell on deaf ears at the US government and Dr Fauci, in the early days, downplayed a lot of the things that were happening because he and the NIH had been funding risky virus research in Wuhan.
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@deezeed2817 Nobody believes that
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At the basic level it is related to the same economic models that were employed in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and today in Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
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@xcutioner5411 I really don't think so because Kpop isn't the only thing that is part of the Korean Wave. There needs to be something else to fill the void if the Korean Wave ends and there really isn't anything on par with that at the moment.
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@xcutioner5411 Ok but what country are you from? BTW, ignoring me is going to give me a good hint as to what nation you are from if you do choose to ignore me.
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They're a developing country for sure but they became an upper middle income nation in 2019 and had good education and living standards. This is why they were able to control the spread of COVID-19 in 2020, bringing cases down to 0 and are dealing with an aging population due to higher life expectancy and low fertility which is why during the 2010s they began importing foreign migrant workers from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar to fill gaps in their vacant job market. In 2019, there was a dossier published to transform the country to high income status by 2030. So they were in a very good position at one point compared to most developing countries. There's a YouTube video about this, if I find it again I'll post the name of it.
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@iamgreat1234 Sorry but just because you have to hire Mandarin speaking Singaporeans does not mean most Singaporeans speak Mandarin. Are you aware that Singaporeans are ethnically diverse? Singaporeans are generally of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent and all Singaporeans learn English as their first language as English is the lingua franca of the country. English is the binding language of Singaporeans. The mother tongue languages of Mandarin (even though Hokkien, Teochew and other Chinese dialects are the actual mother tongue languages of the Chinese), Malay and Tamil are the languages taught as the second language in the Singaporean education system.
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@iamgreat1234 Mandarin is the not the first language or original tongue of Singaporean Chinese. Most Singaporean Chinese come from southern Chinese backgrounds where other languages like Hokkien, Teochew and Hakka are spoken. Mandarin is not the native language of any of these Chinese groups. Mandarin was taught as a second language because Lee Kuan Yew wanted to unite the Singaporean Chinese groups under one common Chinese language because the Singaporean Malays were united under Malay and most Singaporean Indians (the majority who are Tamil) were united under Tamil.
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@gnong2081 It's true
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@gnong2081 Triggered
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@Differently alike One of the biggest songs in the world right now is a song by a Kpop group called "Cupid" after going viral on TikTok. That song has remained at #2 on the official charts in my country (Australia) for the past few weeks and they play it on the radio on the nightly chart countdown radio show.
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He explained in the video
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@tellyboy17 Well we're enslaved to the US too, so I don't see the difference. A lot of people describe Australia as a US puppet. Always bending over for the US and doing their work for them. For example, allowing secret surveillance stations in the country (e.g. Pine Gap), taking part in US wars (e.g. wrongful Invasion of Iraq which ultimately backfired and also affected the general Australian population because the country and its citizens became a target for terrorist attacks including the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2014 Sydney Hostage Crisis among a multitude of other terrorist incidents that occurred mostly during the 2010s. We had a good relationship with China and while we did not agree on everything, our ties with the US damaged them and now a new Australian government is doing damage control. People say we rely heavily on the US and that we need our own independent foreign policy. We are in the Asia-Pacific but we are still looking at the US and UK. We do everything for the US and then when we need assistance, the US says "no". Australia didn't have enough COVID-19 vaccines and the US had plenty of excess ones, that were not being used and would expire soon, but they weren't willing to give it to us... even with payment.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson It's true, regardless of how much it upsets you. Why doesn't kick out the US? It's because Australia is playing a balancing act one that favours the US and one that favours China. It's the same act that most of the region is playing and the US administration wants the whole region to pick one side and that's not what anybody here wants to do. The whole region (except for probably Japan and for obvious reasons because they have yearned for Euro-American validation since the Meiji era) is tired of this cold war between China and the US because eventually this conflict could turn into a physical war and our region will become the battlefield.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson There are plenty of things I don't like about China. A lot of things, especially regarding COVID-19 and their secrecy. However, I'm not going to suggest everything China does is bad and that only one country is good. That is not true. The US and China have good and bad sides to both of them. We just need a balance. I'm merely acknowledging the fact that China is a regional neighbour so you have to learn to co-exist and that's what I want.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson If Australia's foreign policy was more similar to Asian nations, then it would be rather different and more similar to say Australia's northern neighbour, Indonesia. It would be able to stand on its own. The country would sit in the middle, maintaining cordial relations between both the US and China without feeling the need to pick a side. Cultural and historical ties have traditionally meant Australia has ignored Asia and looked to the US and UK. This is why Pine Gap (US military base) exists in Australia, it's not a response to China. China's rise and expansionism is only something recent. Australia always pursued closer ties with the US. So it was inevitable that with the rise of the US military, particularly after WW2, that the country would ally itself with the US. It was the expected thing to do for a Western country at the time. Going neutral like Asia and Africa did would have been unimaginable and still is. It's only since the late 2000s/2010s that Australia really began engaging more with Asia and recognising its geography. It sees itself as both a Western nation and an Asia-Pacific nation (we are taught this in school) and has integrated itself into the region in areas ranging from politics to culture such as the Asian Football Confederation and the RCEP. Controversial remarks made by Asian leaders of yesteryear like Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew were always haunting reminders for the dominant White Australian government of what could become of the country if it continued to ignore its geography and present itself as "white only" (the White Australia Policy was only abolished in 1973 and its native population are Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders). On top of that, ever since colonisation, the perceived "Asian threat" has always existed (a fear that Asian migration or invasion would result in the country becoming "Asian"). The fear first began with the migration of Chinese, Sri Lankan, Malay, Japanese Malay pearl divers during the colonial era, it became particularly prevalent during WW2 amid fear that Australia would be colonised by Japan and its most recent incarnation is in the form of China's rise and expansionism. It's also a theme that appears in Australian pop culture. The truth is if Australia's foreign policy was more independent and not dependent on other nations (in this case the US), Australia wouldn't have been so caught up in all of this. This is why Australia is diversifying and building better ties with Southeast Asian countries and India, engaging further in the Pacific, fixing its ties with China and continuing to build its ties (particularly in the area of defence) with the US. It has recognised its nature as both a Western and Asia-Pacific nation.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson I know everything. 💀 An American trying to tell me what's going on in the Asia-Pacific region??? Calm down. Indonesia is neutral. Just because it has had recent issues with China in the SCS doesn't mean it's anti-China for crying out loud. Indonesia is not even a claimant in the South China Sea Dispute! Google is your friend, use it.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson So me asking for Asia-Pacific nations to remain neutral means I'm paid by China????? You want to control the whole world, don't you?
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson Person from the Indo-Pacific: Oh we prefer to remain neutral and not get caught up in China and US rivalry. That means we prefer to maintain ties with both countries and not pick sides. Person from the US: You were paid by China!! You aren't allowed to remain neutral and build ties with China, you need to pick the US and if not, we will punish you!!
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17.4% of Australians are of Asian origin, I'm one of them.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson OP is clearly from India and so I highly doubt he was paid by the CCP.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson Australia has racism, as do all nations, but at least in Australia, race isn't something that is thought about on a regular basis. The government doesn't even gather statistics on "race" for the census. Only reason we know 17.4% of Australians have ancestry from somewhere in Asia, for example, is because people have the ability to list down their ethnic origin when completing the census form. There are no "racial" categories to choose from.
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Agreed.
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South Korea's Miracle on the Han River (Korean economic miracle) began under the dictatorship of Park Chung-hee. Asia's economic success stories begin under totalitarianism or authoritarian-leaning figures. Developing democratic Asian countries don't succeed. This is why India is lagging behind.
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Not just the US, elsewhere as well. They don't have the opportunities in their own country. India has a job crisis, not enough jobs for their university graduates so all they all leave.
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@_Mohit_Joshi Indo-Pacific and Asia-Pacific basically mean the same thing. The terminology really doesn't matter.
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@shanep.7184 Yeah but there are downsides to democracy in a developing nation. India is developing at a much much slower pace than China because it's a democracy. Democracy simply doesn't work for developing Asian countries, it works best in developed Asian nations like Taiwan and South Korea.
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@Gop101 Actually most of Sri Lanka's debt is owed to Western institutions. There are Western media outlets (even The New York Times surprisingly but via a guest writer) that are now reporting on this.
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The migrant workers are the real reason for the success of Dubai and all of those other Middle Eastern Gulf areas.
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With the way they're going, they're probably going to get stuck in the middle income trap. They care way too much about the wrong things. Their market is not competitive enough and they're continuously failing to close the gap between rich and poor. The top 10% of India's population holds 77% of the country's wealth. That's proof that the country will never get anywhere unless they change things. They don't want to hear this though.
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@dragonfire3727 Getting stuck as a middle income nation is not a good thing. South Africa is stuck, Brazil is stuck... both of these countries are not model nations. If people have the chance, they will leave. Malaysia is a middle income nation, close to becoming a high income nation in the next couple of years but they have issues that need to be addressed before they can pass the threshold. If they don't address these things they risk getting stuck in the middle income trap and educated people don't want to live in a middle income country. So people will leave which is what is happening to Malaysia and the World Bank issued a warning to Malaysia that they will fail to reach high income status if they don't stop the brain drain.
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@dragonfire3727 Thailand is another country described as being stuck in the middle income trap. A middle income nation is not rich and Thailand is struggling today with low fertility, a shrinking workforce and aging population. These are things developed countries face, not a middle income nation. You can't survive these things as a middle income nation.
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@dragonfire3727 Upper middle income countries are still poor, they just don't have large populations of poor people. Thailand still has poor people and so does Malaysia. These countries struggle to take care of their growing elderly populations and shrinking workforces because they are not rich. The goal of every country should be to reach high income status.
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@balajeepratham8200 India is already a middle income country, just a lower middle income country but it's nowhere near reaching upper middle income status.
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Is there a reason why you think he won't?
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@nanaholic01 Yeah but if China were to block the Strait of Malacca they're going to have to get past Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and India (countries that have EEZ overlapping or in close proximity to the Strait of Malacca and/or rely on it).
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@nanaholic01 Yeah you're right. I think most countries in the region, including Australia, want to get along with China without fully siding with the US. Australia is still very much on the US side but it recognises it needs to co-exist with China. Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Singapore don't recognise the Nine Dash Line and Malaysia claims islands and surrounding sea in the SCS and Indonesia claims the surrounding waters of Natuna Islands in SCS. So they won't do anything for China in recognition of the Nine Dash Line. However, I wouldn't be surprised if one day all of those countries I mentioned (except for Singapore) were to fall to the Chinese side. Right now, the only major thing stopping Malaysia, Indonesia and India from becoming blatantly pro-Chinese are territorial disputes. Though, all of those countries, including Singapore, could remain neutral if something like this were to occur, which is more believable to me. The belief of neutrality is so entrenched in much of Asia since the end of WW2 that I wouldn't be surprised if they all turned a blind eye and remained neutral for their own protection.
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Australia has donated money to Sri Lanka. Trust me, other Asia-Pacific countries are helping Sri Lanka. We are taking care of our region.
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@jxyeee6525 Cancel culture?? No. Cancel culture has no existence outside of the United States. This has nothing to do with cancel culture.
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When they begin to threaten US economic hegemony, in the way China is doing now, is when India will become a threat.
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"sure jan"
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@balajeepratham8200 Yes but India suffers from extreme wealth disparity in comparison to most other countries in the world. It ranks number 3 in terms of wealth inequality.
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@balajeepratham8200 The average Indian is not benefiting from India's economic growth.
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@K3shav7 5 million out of 1.4 billion people of which the IT industry is centred around the south of the country and not anywhere in the north, which is where most of the poor people live. India's rise is uneven... it only benefits a small portion of the country.
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@K3shav7 Those aren't the centres for the IT industry in India, you know exactly what I meant.
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Well when India's top 10% own most of the country's wealth, that's not very surprising.
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@reddragon100 It's not though. India places at 3
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@rahulvats95 India once was big, especially in the 1970s. Bollywood films were the trends in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and Cambodia at the time but trends change and nobody now cares about Bollywood anymore except for the one film that transcends Indian demographics and becomes popular like that Gangubai film and Dilwale. Also, Bollywood actors and actresses look really whitewashed and different, nothing like the stars from pre-2000s (especially 1970s where people had more tanned skin). Thai actors in the 1970s used to look like Bollywood actors and many of them came from southern Thailand where people have quite tan and sharper features but that was then in the 1970s when Bollywood looked really different and more relatable to other Asians. These days nobody cares and nobody in Thailand or anywhere in Southeast Asia is trying to look like the white skinned Punjabi Bollywood actors you see today. The themes have changed and the films are described as being more sexual. It's not relatable anymore it seems to a lot of people, even Indians.
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@DavidHalko You must be running some Christian church or school or something because trust me, average people don't care.
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@DavidHalko So all Christians, got it
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@DavidHalko So in other words Christians and Muslims, so believers in Abrahamic faiths which are incredibly restrictive, got it. As I said before, the average person in the West does not care. They are Muslims/Christians with hard-line views so I'm not surprised they feel that way - it's expected. Nobody in the West wants to go back in time, if you truly believe they are going to be implementing Abarahmic faith laws in the West you are living in an alternate universe and you appear to care too much about things that don't concern you but maybe you too are a believer in an Abarahmic faith which will explain why you keep using the term, "wicked behaviour" all the time. The East (which I am going to narrow down simply to the Sinic and Indic-influenced areas of Asia for the purpose of my argument) are most definitely not appealing to the type of refugees/immigrants you speak of. These areas of Asia are in fact more Western influenced and mentally are very different to the countries you speak of. Take a look at the type of people that countries like Singapore, Japan and South Korea take in as migrant workers. None of them come from the countries you have listed. In fact, the last time refugees from that region of the world you speak of made their way to the "East", it sparked mass protests in South Korea where people demanded they leave the country. So the East more appealing to those refugees? No, I don't think so.
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@klm2639 Singapore is a democracy. Just because the majority of Singaporean people prefer to vote in the same government each year doesn't make it any less of a democracy.
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Imagine being triggered by males wearing makeup. I'd never let something that doesn't affect me hurt me so bad unlike some people.
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@davidford3115 You're such an East Asian fetishiser lol
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@davidford3115 Well at least you admit to it unlike others who pretend they don't have a fetish. Anyway, yeah I also think cross-cultural connections are nice and that it's nice for cultures to mix. All that cultural appropriation rhetoric you see these days is not it and I don't see why people should gatekeep aspects of one culture from another culture. People have been sharing their cultures with one another for centuries. Also yes, East and the West have always had a fascination with each other ever since they first came in contact with each other like Marco Polo's trip to China and the blending of Buddhist and Greek culture and architecture in India during the time of Alexander the Great's conquests. Also, the way the West is fascinated by Kpop, Japanese culture, Buddhism, yoga, Bali and East Asian martial arts among other things. It's quite nice to see the way East and West blend with each other.
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1. Aung San Suu Kyi is not to blame 2. The Burmese military committed a genocide. If you think it's not a genocide then you don't know what a genocide is and you obviously support what has happened to the Rohingyas.
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@toobalkain 1. Per the legal definition of the term? So to you what constitutes a genocide? If you think the stripping off citizenship of the Rohingyas, the burning of Rohingya villages, the testimonies from the Burmese soldiers who turned themselves and revealed that they were asked to shoot every Rohingya person they saw, man, woman, child doesn't matter as well and the destruction of any evidence that Rohingyas are people who live in Myanmar, both on the ground and at a national level, doesn't constitute genocide what constitutes genocide to you? 2. The persecution of the Tamils wasn't a genocide because there wasn't a systematic attempt to wipe out Tamil existence in Sri Lanka. Yes, Tamils were heavily perseucted (still are) and the end of the war resulted in grave human rights abuses against Tamil people but it wasn't a genocide because there are Tamils in other parts of Sri Lanka who weren't targeted. The violence in Sri Lanka was directed at the Tamil people who lived in the north of the country and to those in the capital. The Rohingya situation is different. Every Rohingya person was a target and the government didn't want their existence in the country.
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The cheap labour is in Asia
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Well
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What's the difference though? India's fertility rate is already below replacement level as of 2021 (2.0) and in the urban areas, which is where most of the educated live, their fertility rate is 1.6. So the average Indian woman is not having enough babies so there is no harm done in encouraging all women to enter the workforce. They don't have much time left anyway with their shocking demographic projections and brain drain.
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No Rohingyas are Burmese. There was no issue with Rohingyas people until the British invaded Myanmar and bribed the Rohingyas to fight alongside the British instead of letting the Rohingyas side with the other Burmese during the Japanese invasion. That was the starting point and Rohingyas were always seen as traitors by a section of the Burmese community. You should read about the divide and conquer strategy that European colonists used. That's why most of Myanmar's ethnic minorities are fighting with the military and why ethnic minorities continue to be persecuted by the military. Same thing that happened to the Rohingyas is also happening to the Shan, Karen, Kachin and so on.
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