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Old 05-13-2015, 06:42 PM   #55
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To me Asia has four parts:

Indian subcontinent (English is the official language + Bollywood)
Chinese Japan Korean Vietnam (Confucius + chopsticks)
Middle East (too scared to put anything here, just in case my English is not good enough)
Other Asian (sorry I do not know much about them)

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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
To my mind, Asia consists of the 'stans from Kazakhstan down to Pakistan and then India, Nepal and Bangladesh. While technically also Asia, I could China, the Koreas, Japan and the countries down from China to Indonesia as the Far East.

It would seem a little odd to group India (1billion+, the worlds largest democracy) and China (1 billion+, the world's largest totalitarian regime).

It's weird enough lumping China, the Koreas and Japan together.
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