India's problems. China has more people smashed into a smaller space, if you consider that 80% of Chinese live on the East coast in an area much smaller than India and although parts of China can be filthy, I've never seen any place in China that compares to the squalor of Delhi or Mumbai. I think the Pakistani/Canadian commenter makes the most crucial point: there is no fundamental human dignity/equality expressed in Indian culture and there is an element of it in Chinese culture, albeit expressed in a manner quite different than in the West, it is still there.

by The Agonist on 03/27/2009 06:23:57 AM EST

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