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To: cmdjing

From what I seen, Indians dont have any negative views on people of any race. Some ignoramuses make jokes on Africans, but no one has racial supremacistic notions on any one.

India is more like a continent of 56 countries, rather than ONE culture.

China, being an ethnically insular country, with HAN forming an overwhelming majority of 990 million or more, have a more definite notion of racial and ethnic pride.

So, its always you guys who have this tendency to compare yourself with us.. we cant even do so, because we have nothing to do defend nationalistically.


19 posted on 11/27/2006 4:58:29 PM PST by design engineer
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To: design engineer

Lets just say I think your views are singularly unique among Indians that I have come to interact with and I'll leave it at that.


20 posted on 11/27/2006 5:38:51 PM PST by cmdjing
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To: design engineer

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).


21 posted on 11/28/2006 1:47:56 PM PST by canon5d
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