Re: Of graduates, fake degrees and national pride
Do you have a representative democracy or not? Why mimic the west which does not have 50%+ effective 'illiteracy' (in quotes for a reason)
What representative democracy? You mean big landlords with 1000s of acre agricultural lands and multi-millionaire industrialists whose dining tables are always full and who run about on posh cars representing poor farmers and factory workers who finds difficulty in getting one meal a day and travel hanging on full to brim rundown busses?
If this is the representative democracy you are talking about than 'yes', we in Pakistan have such absurd and sham democracy where unequal represents down trodden and oppressed equals.
We have democracy where 99.99 percent of people could not contest election because first of all they would not be able to afford contesting election (it could cost around Rs 50 million plus lot of influences and gunddas backing) but even if they could, if they would dare to contest, they would reach grave before election date, not because they may challenge anyone in election but because they dared to stand in front of those privileged few who could contest election.
[Pakistan has 2.5 million plus graduates but those who are eligible to contest election (graduates or no-graduates) as they have required qualifications (money, family background, gunnda backing, influences, etc) are probably 0.1 million or less].