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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 624242, member: 2844&quot;]When you look at the pre-colonial history of many parts of Asia, you see that there was hardly any real poverty, because of the way communities and the old kingdoms were organized. Poverty was introduced when colonisers started to exploit other nations, used them to earn more money for rich European merchants, upset the traditional agricultural systems and systems of governing.</p><p>If you force regions to grow only tea or cotton, ban indigenous people from their centuries old international trade and other means of income, you introduce famine. Which in turn leads to millions going to cities where they have no future.</p><p><br /></p><p>India is slowly recovering from the depletion by several European powers and trading companies. It has had to work out all over again how to organize a country properly, and make it in the modern world. Sure, mistakes are made, but it is doing so much better now than in the 60s and 70s for instance.</p><p><br /></p><p>India and some other Asian countries are slowly getting back on their feet. As komo already pointed out there is also much room for improvement in the West.</p><p>For example, Pine Ridge Reservation in the US in 2015:</p><p>&quot;The average annual income on Pine Ridge Reservation is $3,000, which amounts to a mere $60 a week. Compared to the $10,000 average annual income for those living in poverty in third world countries&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.truesiouxhope.org/single-post/2015/08/21/PINE-RIDGE-STATISTICS-VS-WORLDWIDE-STATISTICS" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.truesiouxhope.org/single-post/2015/08/21/PINE-RIDGE-STATISTICS-VS-WORLDWIDE-STATISTICS" rel="nofollow">https://www.truesiouxhope.org/single-post/2015/08/21/PINE-RIDGE-STATISTICS-VS-WORLDWIDE-STATISTICS</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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