National Comparisons: Assessing State Success


Figure 1.-- One interesting observation is that there appears to be a disconnect between a country's self image and the objective factors of state discuss we have listed. In fact many countries which have a strong sense of cultural superority are among the poorer countries in the world. Some of the most notable such countries are found on the Subcotinent (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), including both Hindus and Muslims. An interesting corelary of this feeling of culturaly superiority and low rankings on objective factors of success is that many of the most successful countries do not have strong feelings of cultural superiority. [Ghemawat] THis is an especially notable phenomenon in Western Europe, especially Sweden but many other Western countries as well (Britain, France, and Germany). It is not entirely clear why these successful outries do not have a feeling of cultural superority. We suspect that the left-wing concept of cultural relativity prompted in schools is a factor.

One interesting observation is that there appears to be a disconnect between a country's self image and the objective factors of state discuss we have listed. In fact many countries which have a strong sense of cultural superority are among the poorer countries in the world. Some of the most notable such countries are found on the Subcotinent (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), including both Hindus and Muslims. [Ghemawat] Also very high on the feeling of cultural superiority are other Muslim countries outside the Subcontinent. For the most part, Muslim countries unless gfted with oil resources are poor. The exception is some of the more moderate Muslim countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Turkey) which are achieving a degree of economic success. Interestingly, the greater the feeling of cultural superiority, often the greater the feeling that their country needs to be protected. This has led in the case of many Muslim countries the passage of blasfemy laws meaning that people who question traditional values (often religious values) can be arrested and given lengthy prisson terms or even executed. Perhaps even more important are extra-judicial violence. This of course discourages what these countries need the most-introsoection an reassessment of traditional values. An interesting corelary of this feeling of culturaly superiority and low rankings on objective factors of success is that many of the most successful countries do not have strong feelings of cultural superiority. [Ghemawat] THis is an especially notable phenomenon in Western Europe, especially Sweden but many other Western countries as well (Britain, France, and Germany). It is not entirely clear why these successful outries do not have a feeling of cultural superority. We suspect that the left-wing concept of cultural relativity prompted in schools is a factor. But as a result these countries are also not reflecting on what made them successful (largely free market capitalism and the rule of law including protection of property rights) leading to the growth of socialist policies that are undermining the Euro Zone today in country after country.

Sources

Ghemawat, Pankaj. World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It







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