Which do you find more culturally interesting: Asia or Europe? (top, Japanese)
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Both diverse and interesting, but I would say Asia because it's more diverse (from Israel to Japan to Indonesia to India to Asian Russia - in terms of religion, language.etc), older, and I suppose in some ways more exotic, even though I've travelled to a lot of Asian countries. Europe is of course still fascinating, but most of Europe has the same cultural heritage of Christianity, influenced by Greco-Roman philosophy.etc.
Asia for me! Even though America is quite different from Europe, Asia on the other hands, feels completely exotic. There is also a much bigger difference (to me) between Japan, Korea, Hong Kong to Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam etc than England to Spain to Italy.
I guess Asia mostly because I grew up in the US which is more culturally influenced by Europe so it does not feel as exotic.
That being said though I can't say I have a desire to visit parts of Asia such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, or anywhere in the Middle East so I would probably choose to visit Europe over those countries.
Asia for me! Even though America is quite different from Europe, Asia on the other hands, feels completely exotic. There is also a much bigger difference (to me) between Japan, Korea, Hong Kong to Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam etc than England to Spain to Italy.
Well to give you an example, most of Europe speaks an Indo-European language, while Japanese and Mandarin aren't even in the same family.
I would China has similarities to Vietnam and Korea, and a lesser extent Japan. Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Burma are sort of one 'group', Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines another, the Indian sub-continent another, central Asia, Iran, the Arabic world, Turkic world etc.
It depends where you come from. If it's more different to you, then it is more interesting to you.
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