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#8, Singapore
- The “Prosperity Burger” is currently McDonald’s signature sandwich in Malaysia and Singapore. Its slogan is: “usher in an abundance of prosperity.” The burger comes in beef, or chicken.
- 19m people emigrated from Britain between 1850 and today – “no other country in the world ever came close to exporting so many of its inhabitants.” [Niall Ferguson, Empire]
- There were some bombings in Thailand on New Year's eve. No one is sure who carried them out, but suspects certainly include the current Government. The same Government is short of bomb sniffer dogs, needed to prevent the planting of more bombs, possibly by itself. As a result it is asking its citizens to send their pet dogs to bomb training school. More than 150 patriotic thai pet owners have come forward, so far. [Story in the Bangkok Post, also in the IHT.]
- That old favourite, the juxtaposition of modernity and tradition, Malaysian style. [Picture of prayer times and popular news stories, in the Malay Mail.]
- “Rai has starred in 24 films over the last seven years. That may seem like a lot of movies, but Bollywood, India's film capital, is famous for churning out more movies a year than Hollywood. Three new films are produced and distributed worldwide every day, attracting a global audience of 5 billion people. That's twice the reach of Hollywood.” [CBS News]
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Well..... no he doesn't. I suppose given how keen Ferguson is on namedropping basic economics concepts like "elasticity" or "demand", i take no small delight in agreeing that he is mistakening taking a flow of people, and treating it as a stock. So one would assume that some of that flow of emigrating number is likely to have included people who returned, so the ultimate total stock of emigrees would be smaller. I suppose these "returners" would be either because they always intended to (migrant labourers, i suppose) or because of choice (india is full of disease, we prefer Yorkshire, etc.) The number of people who actually staffed the colonies seemed surprisingly small. The civil service in India, for instance, seemed to be at most only a few thousand. So while a few thousand can mount up over a century and a half, that flow of (ultimately returning) people didn't seem to me to be the likely cause of the figure, at least in large part. Would that make sense to you?
The other interesting thing is he uses a slightly different version of this statistic in different places. He says something like 21m between 1600 and roughly 1956 at one point. But then at others narrows it down to a slightly lower figure. Once it was the one i used, another time it was a slightly larger number and slightly longer timeframe. In the end i thought the interesting thing was just the extent of mid 19th century emigration in particular. what to make of the differing stats i'm not sure, to be honest.
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