On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Mahesh Murthy <[email protected]> wrote: > This was less of an issue in earlier times as Indians didn't have easy > access to Chinese maps, or vice versa. Today citizens in both countries can > simply change a two-letter domain suffix and see how the same information is > presented differently across the border. And of course we can choose to get > all "sentimentally hurt" about it.
And both countries are economically more powerful today than they were 30 years ago. Their awareness of their economic power, IMO, leads to more public belligerence and chest thumping public displays. Thaths -- "Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman... and I have no interest in that, besides wearing the occasional underwear, which as we discussed is strictly a comfort thing." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
