Saigon
Gold Member
Hossfly -
I'm not sure what immigration has to do with it. Indonesia certainly has hundreds of different ethnicities, but that is more to do with the diversity of the islands (Irian Jaya, Flores, Bali) than it does immigration.
Countries evolve in different ways, and at different speeds. There are dozens of clear reasons for societies to be held back - war, famine, oppression, colonialism, poverty - and we see the impact of those factors right around the world. Indonesia hus suffered all of those factors, whereas the US has suffered very few of those in the past 200 years.
What you have to keep in mind is that Indonesia has only been a democracy since around 1990. Development has been much faster since then.
A lot of the countries I go to are a century behind Europe in social development, but as we see in countries like Ghana, Rwanda and Malaysia, poor countries do develop quite naturally given the time and space to do so. As they develop, so civil rights should improve. It is a case of establishing good government and justice, then improving living standards & education, then we tend to see development right across the board, and better civil rights and tolerance.
Does it really surprise you that Burundi has a worse record on civil rights than Germany does?
I'm not sure what immigration has to do with it. Indonesia certainly has hundreds of different ethnicities, but that is more to do with the diversity of the islands (Irian Jaya, Flores, Bali) than it does immigration.
Countries evolve in different ways, and at different speeds. There are dozens of clear reasons for societies to be held back - war, famine, oppression, colonialism, poverty - and we see the impact of those factors right around the world. Indonesia hus suffered all of those factors, whereas the US has suffered very few of those in the past 200 years.
What you have to keep in mind is that Indonesia has only been a democracy since around 1990. Development has been much faster since then.
A lot of the countries I go to are a century behind Europe in social development, but as we see in countries like Ghana, Rwanda and Malaysia, poor countries do develop quite naturally given the time and space to do so. As they develop, so civil rights should improve. It is a case of establishing good government and justice, then improving living standards & education, then we tend to see development right across the board, and better civil rights and tolerance.
Does it really surprise you that Burundi has a worse record on civil rights than Germany does?
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