Why haven’t developing nations developed yet, how long will it take before they do?

There must be other factors, but education has a part to do with it. I guess it’s more of a tradition that comes out of what they have been educated on. For instance, my friend went to India to do service work in the slums. He would show them how to brush their teeth and wash their hands, yet some people revolted against it. They said that it (along with shots) was a crime against their god. So for some people, they’re okay with it that way since it is all they have known. Educating them from the beginning, in my opinion, is crucial. But religion and tradition has its barriers, and it is hard to start the cycle because of it.

Another problem with developing countries is the lack of empowerment of women. A lot of the religious practices there are still very primitive, and this also depends on how rural the civilization is. For instance, women are still basically property to their husbands and parents in India, dowries are still taking place, and they have no control over what they do in life. If a woman has a second baby girl, then one of the parents (usually the mother-in-law) will suffocate the baby and bury the baby far away in an unknown place to pretend like it the birth never even happened at all. In some cultures, when a woman’s husband dies, she must break glass shackles on her wrist until her wrist is gushing open and then jump into a fire in which her husband is burning in. These things, too, are what can keep a society from progressing. Breaking a lifelong tradition is hard to do.

Also, a lot of them are in really shitty conditions that may not have necessarily been their fault, like developing nations dumping trash on their land, cheap labor, etc.

I’m thinking it is a perspective thing. Developed nations continue to “develop” as well so the Developing nations never actually catch up.

Prior to the last century or so there was not all that much international commerce. When industrialization came along it was tightly controlled to keep that advantage in the home country, and in many ways that’s still the case. If you want petroleum refining equipment or a supercomputer you’ll have to trade with a ‘first world’ country and pay a lot of coconuts for it.

Some of that has broken down in the past several decades as whole factories were disassembled and shipped to China (and other developing countries) where the labor was cheaper and environmental and worker safety laws were non-existent.

While in some respects China is still considered a developing country it also now has first-world capabilities like landing their jade probe on the moon a couple weeks ago.

I’m sure it’s all the things that you listed, plus the fact that they are playing at a casino where all the roulette wheels are rigged. Every great once-in-a-while the casino owners will flip off the magnets long enough to let one or two people from developing nations win big. That keeps them in the game, where they can be exploited for cheap resources, cheap labor, and willingness to accept factories that are ticking ecological time bombs. Corrupt leaders and the crony capitalism they embrace make it all work.

As long as “developed” western nations continue to exploit the natural resources and cheap labour of these countries without sharing the benefits of these resources and as long as their leaders cooperate with corporations in the West to exploit their own people through poor legislation and simple corruption, why would we expect these nations to really progress?