India has a middle class of around 200 million out of 1100million.
and about 60 million people with the lifestyle of developed countries.
The literacy rate is still less than 50%.
still this means they have a pool of 500 million to draw from.
this also means that in india more than half the population have living standards worse than the poorest in somalia and africa.
When i lived in lagos nigeria, i worked with a guy that grew up in poverty and worked his way up.
He lived in slums and was dirt poor, he was working in india and found that indias poor are far worse off than he ever experienced.
India is one hell of a shithole..
drop an indian slum dweller in goma, congo and the some desert in mali and he will think he died and went to heaven,
all those resources,and food...
Another fact I'd like to suggest is that virtually all Indians that live in the West came to their respective countries through a point-based immigration system that doesn't let low-skilled/ill-educated Indians enter a country.
Somalis, on the other hand, were at occasions airlifted directly from refugee camps to Europe/North America. Families that were originally nomadic agropastrolists found themselves in an urban setting. Given the circumstances, I believe Somalis are actually doing well when compared to others.
One point that needs to be emphasised is that most Somalis came to the West fleeing war whilst Indians came seeking economic prosperity.
