Some guys do the same bombarding on China too, didn't you notice?
There are number of ways I can answer your objection, I will try but I hope you won't take offence as that is not my purpose.
I can't go around posting objections everywhere, largely because I never read a thread in detail unless it grabs my attention, and to be perfectly honest I usually just read your first post, which I also assume is your main purpose. I have read various comments about you, I see those as jealousy, your country is doing well, and you have reasons to be proud so share all you want, good for you guys.
My reasons for objecting here were two; from what I've observed nilgiri seems like a decent sort, the type who engages in proper discussions, and you have 67,000 posts, I just expect a degree of maturity, anyone else, and I wouldn't have bothered. If you want to bombard or do a tit for tat, please feel free, it makes no difference to me, but I'm sure there are plenty of idiots on this forum who deserve that treatment.
The scope of this thread has already widened from what I believe to be the original intent, for instance Chinese identity, it's somewhat comparative I suppose, and leaves a lot of room for you to post rebuttals.
You can post comparisons between Chinese identity and Indian identity.
Sinisation is a historical process, no such process has existed in India, you have plenty of room in which to play your cards.
Identity is either a top down process, or a bottom up process. In China it was mostly a top down process, the example of bottom up process is England, where for hundreds of years the ruling classes were non English, yet the English language, and Englishness remained, largely due to the pressure from the masses.
In China, the development of Han culture largely followed a top down process, that's fine because historical processes were different in different societies. No grouping in the world, such as Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi, Japanese, French or any other, no grouping woke up one day and decided OK today we will be Tamil, Japanese or whatever, they followed a process of evolution, that evolution always had various drivers, those drivers and that process is what created their identity, their ethnicity.
That process did exist in China and resulted in over 90% of China being Han Chinese ethnicity, the same process never existed in India, so there is no such thing as Indian ethnicity, Indian is a nationality, not an ethnicity.
So you have a lot of space to bombardment, but on the right topics, post maps on what India the region/South Asia looked like before the colonial period, and post maps of what China looked like before the colonial period.
Post stuff about your trade relations, post about your border issues, post about your maritime concerns, you are two large countries, surely there are any number of relevant topics on which you can bombard.
I just thought two people, about which I generally had positive image would be open to construct feedback. Personally I don't have much of a desire to contribute on this topic, but I do have a desire to read, because it seems interesting.
