Is democracy practical for developing countries?

A total democratic system grants every citizen a voting right to the election system. It
upholds the value of democracy in which tax payer is the core concern in the country, as
opposite to ideologies of monarchy, authoritarian, tyranny, and fascism.

The west is imposing universality in equality in race, gender, freedom of choice in education,
language, religion, migration, marriage, speech, as well as human right constitution. In view
of China being the host of Olympic 2008, a rising economy which have being showcased as a
downplay of democracy, let us look into how the mechanism of democracy may not exactly
working.

For a country to continue booming economical development, it has to be politically stable

with free economy and labor market, well organized educational institution, and guarded
security. As the saying one needs to break eggs in order to make omelets, henceforth,
democracy is sacrificed in the name of achieving a state as such to sustain a healthy and
steady growth, largely in an economical measure.

Suffice to say, there are downsides of such high culture mechanism:

1. Disparity of Money: Gap between Rich, Middle class and Poor
2. Disparity of Power/Justice: Abuse of freedom of speech, Corruption
3. Elitist mechanism: Few elites are forever in the armchair and never go away, no
retirement, no performance review, etc.

On the contrary, Democracy has its pros:

1. Fair and Justice
2. Access of right
3. Less racism

With hindsight, is democracy a luxury notion for developing countries? Yes, some of the
examples of which country have been ransacked by the ideology of democracy but not
economical development are Philippines, Myanmar and perhaps soon India, Tibet and China.
When a country is focusing its direction in economical development and societal stability,
isnt democracy a reverse mechanism that one use it against oneself, a rather unwise and
self contradictory move?

Let us turn our angle to look at USA 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton failed and
rejoined Obama in order to uphold the value of democracy. USA is making a major step in
making races/ethnicity/skin color/family background insignificant to its people. It is a very
encouraging move. How such ideology is suitable for those countries with only one race and
with the existence of caste system, such as Singapore, Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Middle
East, India, etc.?

In an era of globalization and internationalization, democracy is undoubtedly a positive

mentality in which individual capacity overrides caste system. Having said so, if democracy
is to be used it as a mechanism to cause negative impact onto domestic economy; it may
equal to have none through its developmental milestone.