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There is a great TED talk by Hans Rosling showing the same improving global condition through different metrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI

And here's some data about what's happened to the world (not so much "why", but "what") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI

These charts just don't feel right without Hans Rosling jumping up and down in front of them like a little kid.

For the baffled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI

The First/Third World East/West split isn't as concrete or relevant as it used to be, perhaps best explained by Hans Rosling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI

The first proper comment in TFA hits the nail on the head for India, and is relevant elsewhere. If you approach programmers in a non-Anglospheric country adopting the cultural and business manners and expectations of the Anglosphere then your project is doomed from the get go. This is doubly true for countries like India that technically are too big and diverse to form part of the Anglosphere but have a massive number of English speakers, often as a second language.

I don't perceive programmers from any nation in any particular way, because there are good programmers, there are crap programmers and there are culturally different programmers.

What I will say is that for programmers who have English as a second or third language or not at all it's much harder for them to work as most of the tutorials, books, online resources are written primarily in English for an English speaking populous. Even the languages themselves are written in English following English idioms. How would you feel about programming in a language that uses Mandarin or Hindi as a base language?

⬐ ashu

This is probably the most vividly presented talk I have ever seen in my life. No wonder Google bought Gapminder immediately after this talk.