John W. wrote:
> On Aug 30, 7:30 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I got home mid last week after stoping in Paris for 1.5 days. The
> hardest thing about coming back home is that in India I was treated
> with great respect and people valued my opinion. Once a security guard
> saluted me; he looked like a real yokel who didn't know any better,
> but still.

That appearance based class structure is certainly alive and well.

To me, the eeriest thing was getting to Tokyo right after being in 
Mumbai, and realizing that I really appreciated all the open spaces and 
how uncrowded everything was in Tokyo.
KWW