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To: Sam Citron who wrote (159909)	3/31/2005 11:25:00 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks for the post -- in China, education facilitates a high degree of potential for mobility without much regard for social status -- you can grow up riding a water buffalo and end up at an elite university based on your merits. That is mobility. That is America as well. In India, merit counts heavily, but my perception, right or wrong, is that merit is not enough. Your caste can hold you back. That was, and is, the sum of my point. As for "democracy", I see no evidence that India has a more effective government than China for serving the needs of its people. Not to say that I prefer a one-party system -- I don't. But in terms of results, China has done well, albeit with a political system that has not yet evolved into a democracy as we know it.