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To: el_gaviero who wrote (2245)11/19/2005 9:28:42 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (2) of 217822
 
Read the site. That's it. Nothing to discuss about. For country with the Brazilian IQ, they are better off exploiting agribusiness rather than try to become a Germany. And that is not a praise for German IQ because I work for them for over a 1/4 of a century and a I know them.

Then they can export the model to other similar places like the Caribbean< South East Asia and Africa.

And there’s nothing wrong with this; a million dollar is a million dollar. Look the Aussies and the Canadian. Just get the stuff out of the ground efficiently and you've got it made. Of course there’s this inner national pride cum self steem that will react if you say that they rose riding the coat tails of other countries. And they will dign some virtue to –unsuccessfully- bullshit me about

I am telling that because I lived and worked in different settings:

Native of Brazil then I lived and worked in: Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Thailand, Malaysia and now Iran.

I take three examples:

Sweden case:
If one look to Sweden you know that what they do, what they specialized in, can't be reproduced in another country of disparate environment. And I can tell you they are not that bright!

Indonesia case:
Indonesia thought that they were going to become an industrialized country. In three months I discovered that they were a failure waiting to happen.
The Japanese were installing there everything that they could not economically run in Japan and creating a huge overcapacity of everything.

The infrastructure was dismal with the Chinese putting up buildings by the waterline (they love to do this in Asia!) The managerial capacity was not there. Turnover was 20%. They could not find the people to run the economy.

They speak a stupid language and people's way of thinking and their mind set are coupled tight with the language they speak.

Iran:
The environment in a given country, dumb down the population. Any people who have a little brain power are not here. The environment dumb down the whole country. The more enterprising and bright left.

Now that I can recognize the Iranian names I can see how highly regarded and successful they and their dependants are:

Fred Mercury, Andre Agassi and Christiane Anampour are just the most famous and visible.
You get the whole Kahuna here:

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