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Brazil never had this problem and it is still 'developing' 195 years after its independence. Same language, not that different regional culture (similar to USA I guess). And Europe as a whole was able to become developed despite its language barriers.

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Just that it has almost double per capita income(PPP) when compared to India. $1576(76th) vs $7153 (122nd) respectively.

I think soneca's point was Brazil is still developing irrespective of any language barriers. So how does your statistics on PPP become an argument for that?

Rampant foreign interference and military juntas have a way of stunting your country's development.

Are you talking about Brazil or India here?

( I apologize in advance if it looks like I am arguing by asking questions. But I am asking because of curiosity/lack of knowledge )

Specifically Brazil here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Military_Junta_of_19...

Decades of military rule is not good for your economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_military_government

Not that India hasn't had more than its fair share of both over the centuries.

There lies a difference between 'developing' & 'developed' and my point regarding it is with the development pace which is comparatively slow against Brazil or any other developing nation which usually has very few language as an official one. Brazil has only one 'Portuguese' as an official language but India has far too many.

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