@DrDeth - as you know, I generally give you some benefit of the doubt, and have tried to provide constructive criticism. So that’s what I’m doing right now and I want you to keep that in mind. I’m also putting it HERE because I don’t want to break up the thread.
Please pause and think about what you said in this:
Saying an entire nation is backward, which encompasses many individual states, countless peoples and different cultures because a handwave of corruption is such a simplification of the scenario as to be laughable. It makes you look unspeakably bad, reinforces every bad assumption about you, and is fundamentally wrong on the face of it.
I’m not going to defend this statement, as I can’t see it but anything other than a kneejerk reaction/opinion, probably with emphasis on the “jerk” portion.
And you’re smart enough to realize that unqualified statements here of all places, without considering any of the nuance, are not going to fly.
You need to do better. You can do better. NOT doing so, when you’ve already burned as many second chances as you have is a non-starter.
And again, I say this all as constructive criticism. Now is not the time (okay, it’s NEVER the time, but now is especially bad for YOU) to make unqualified negative generalizations about an entire nation or group of people.