China Vs India - The Debate Continues

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India - We were ruled by the Brits for 200 years. We succumbed to their education, administration, military systems. We virtually caved in and surrendered to their "cultural" imperialism more than the direct imperialism. We gave up on our vernacular languages and learnt and mastered their language. Today, that is 50 years after India’s independence from British rule, India's English speaking skills is something that has become her unique selling proposition in a Services dominated global market place. All the IT hullabaloo in India boils down to the fact that we speak English - a foreign language, a language that belonged to someone who ruled us, a language that was thrust upon us and we succumbed to it with open arms.
Bottomline – Our weakness of the past is something that we are cashing upon. There is nothing that we have developed indigenously that’s helping us. Clearly it was our cultural surrender of our past that we are trying to cash upon today.

China – Despite being ravaged by different western and eastern powers in the past the Chinese did not culturally surrender themselves. They retained their language, their culture and in all these years have proved that they can do it without surrendering their languages and heir cultural identities. They proved it in the manufacturing business.
Bottomline – They have worked hard and have developed and learnt skills to succeed in manufacturing. They have not cashed upon their weaknesses. With the same attitude they are learning English to hone their skills.

End Point – China can easily outperform India even in the services area. They are not cashing upon their weaknesses of the past but are building their strengths.