Given my experience living in both China and India, friends and colleagues frequently ask me to weigh in on the “China vs. India” battle that is constantly being touted in the press. (Well, not really, but that’s what I imagine friends and colleagues are thinking.) I haven’t done this yet because I wanted to spend some time thinking about this and go a bit deeper than the superficial comparison you hear repeated ad nauseum in the press. Here it is. Enjoy.
Similarities:
- China and India are both really, really big.
- (Any others I am missing?)
Differences:
- Chinese people eat with chopsticks while Indians typically eat with their hands
- The McDonalds in India serves McVeggies. The McDonalds in China are decorated with large cutouts of auspicious characters.
- Several others
2 comments:
That was funny.
On a serious note, another similarity is that they both are several thousand years old civilisations. Unlike the US of A which has a little over 200 years of "heritage."
Don't forget, they are both in Asia. And they both are five letters long.
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