Posted on 11/26/2006 6:37:06 PM PST by nwrep
I don't know any chinese that compares himself actively against Indians - i do hear lots of Indians comparing india to china, though.
now, i did hear some of my chinese colleagues asking indian colleagues why indians don't do well in the olympics (and that was only during the summer olympics) simply because they were curious how a country with 1 billion people would do so poorly comparatively to say, Australia.
i don't think it has anything to do with nationalism - most of the time the chinese/american-chinese guys don't even get along with each other - i see far more cohesiveness within the indian community than the chinese community.
I think this thread says it all - the post is about India, and yet immediately we get comparison against China (and it's all the same argument from MSM about open v. closed society, etc.) People tend to overlook some facts about it - such as how Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, etc. all developed their economy under a dictatorship system at the time the economy was developing. Singapore today is stil ruled by a one party state (98% of all seats belongs to one party) - no one ever says Taiwan's development would fail due to Chiang Kai Shek's rule (and he did rule it with an iron hand - lots of people were jailed wrongly and executed).
What else would create national excellence?
Now don't say that to a liberal.
$2400 and still dropping ! Nice. I might consider once it falls below $2000.
I have and I do, but they assume I am speaking a foreign language or gibberish and ignore me.
i have a 1d actually, not a 5d :)
The 1D is prehistoric! It belongs inside a glass box in the Nationl Museum Of Natural History ;-) If you want a 5d, it's replacement is coming in Feb so the prices might drop to the mid to upper teens by next summer. I got a used 20D some time ago, ISO 100 is butter smooth !
1D? I mean the 1D mark 2 :D
aah. That's a whole different thing.
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