No. The basis is that we were the ones who figured out how to lift most of our folks out of the kind of abject poverty that plagues your society. With that kind of abundance comes tendencies toward individualism. With poverty, comes tendencies towards family because of dependencies. Your idealization of South Asia is, and always has been, criminal in its rank stupidity. 321 Badpainter says: September 3, 2014 at 12:29 am @320 Adding… Only with a healthy respect for individualism does a society get to create the wealth in question. Collectivist rigid class/caste oriented societies haven’t done as well because individual mobility in those societies is severely limited. 322 Plane Jain says: September 3, 2014 at 12:46 am “The SIs you refer to are the result of technological developments and societies that found a way to far produce in excess of need. It’s a curse of abundance not biology. If the entire planet had western standards of living all the same problems would manifest just in different costumes.” https://pad.opensenselab.org/s/98WWGbH9I https://md.eris.cc/s/qqcp2J896I https://hack.depta.dev/s/VYFNVGD5W https://codi.mcloud.digital/s/P34JiEpXoe https://codi.cermat.org/s/HkQO-DE1Me https://pad.aleph.world/s/AjNaMlEfW https://notes.phys-el.ru/s/iX3-zFr2nc https://www.magicwall.io/s/B1cXHvNkfe https://hedge.soundar.eu.org/s/OKpcZ87NF https://pad.batsense.net/s/tN1fZmKM4 https://pad.ifland.dev/s/Y0lkAzkaZ https://pad.hackingfor.eu/s/BFXaG3gRL https://docs.vaala.cloud/s/OpEXbBrE3z https://hedgedoc.mathphys.info/s/md3yTTmzr- https://notes.avdm.nl/s/D5UK_hS5n https://pad.pythonf.de/s/6zItFpoML https://note.floodfire.tw/s/SyxDD_4yfl https://talkpad.3oe.de/s/PWalM32M3 https://codimd.tyhou12.xyz/s/_R9Nmz8ZN https://codi.teuber.dev/s/Cjzqwj6nE https://codi.filler.cc/s/rysmlcN1Gx https://gcp.mydns.jp/s/981HsdSx8 https://codimd.mim-libre.fr/s/S5p19sgcs https://doc.myceliandre.fr/s/zfB1WyeFV https://pad.yuka.dev/s/GjhBleWdps https://md.kolms.eu/s/S1_JdcVkMx https://hackmd.syndace.dev/s/t9Mfex5yi https://hedge.debile.co/s/VGXy4psRK