@wolf_z
... are you sure about that? Do you have any hard figures to back up how easy or hard, cheap or expensive it is to bribe an American "official"? And what level of "official" are we talking?
At first, I smiled at your comment, thinking as most westerners do that the "3rd world" (of which India is part in and part out of due to it's peculiar makeup) is more corrupt than the 1st world (if that's the correct term) countries. Then the smile disappeared as I pondered the rampant corruption of graft, back-handers and political manoeuvrings that we all see in "the west" day in and day out, and I realised that "1st world" countries are every bit as corrupt as the "3rd world" - ours just has a thin veneer of "respectability" (!) over it, whereas elsewhere people tend to accept it for what it is and not cover it.
So while it's comfortable for us to point the finger at India, China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Somalia (I won't go thru the list - it's very long...) et al for being "corrupt", we should remember a very wise saying: "People who live in glass houses should not throw rocks at others"...
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