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To be honest, I feel that China's disadvantages are far greater than India's disadvantages. To give you an idea, India was so far ahead of China in the 60s that Nehru thought it would be a good idea to act aggressively and started pushing into chinese territory (got his ass kicked though because chinese are better fighters).
Chinese are simply a resilient people. Also chinese have a type of pride that's rarely found among others. I don't mean the nasty, arrogant pride that's always putting down others or blowing own trumpets like MN1Mexcoon, Ironman and Fractal are always doing. I think brown people, or those who are neither white or black, e.g. turks, southeast asians and mexicans are the most racist people by far and their posts support my observation. It's a racism born out of inferiority complex, they feel entitled for admiration/envy but have nothing to be envious about.
Chinese have an innate pride, one that's capable of respecting ourselves while respecting others. A pride that's comfortable with our faults yet always striving to do better. A pride that drives us to be the best we can. That's the chinese character and why many educated chinese choose to return to the motherland after their education is finished.
Even in our darkest hours, our forefathers understood the meaning of sacrifice, of building a better future.
^This was China in the 80s. Chinese would toil and labor with a smile on their faces. All for the greater good. And this is one of the biggest reasons why China beats all the brown countries from Mexico to the Philippines to India to Turkey. It's because we're doers, not talkers.
And yes, Indians excel because they're good at climbing up the social ladder. I have a friend (Scotch-irish ancestry) who works with them and he told me that their quality is horrendous, the only reason they're there is because they're good at "kissing ass"
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