ChineseTiger1986,
I assume that you are a Chinese.
Usually I don't say this, but you are mixing many different myths, togehter with some propaganda of India made by both today's liberal West and yestersday's old British Empire.
I find it neccesary to comment on this, since many common mainland Chinese like you have the same sort of delusions on India.
1. ancient Indu Valley Civilisation that today's India took full credit of was different from today's India !
ancient Indu Valley Civilisation =/= India!
Ancient Indu Valley Civilisation originated in current day Pakistan, and a part of Afganistan. It was created by central Asian tribes, arguablely one of them was called Aryan people, who were located around today's Iran.
Aryan were central Asian people originally, not blonde hair/ blue eyes Western Europeans. Hitler just twisted this myth a little bit to use it to unify Nazi Germany ideologically.
2. "India" was a concept created only recently by British Raj. There was no "India" in the ancient past, but many tiny tribes, some of them were related and some of them were not. But most of them , or almost all of them, had
nothing to do with Aryan, oke?
So where this "culturally Indo-aryan" myth came from?
It came from mainly the old British Empire. After conquered and unified South Asia to make it a part of its colonies, the British glorified the importance of so called "India" via different means. The reason for that was mainly to glorify the significance of the new British achivements.
Historially, despite having some geniuses in South Asia and it has created a certain level of civilisation ( note here: many experts in the field reasonablely argue that it was Aryan people who did the most part in the acient past, not today's indigenious people there).
Note here that most Sounth Asia's achivements happend in teh very ancient past , but not recent past, i.e. recent 1 or 2 thousand years. Do people ever ask themselves why so? Above explaination is a very plausable reason.
In most part of history, the direction of flow of civilisation advancements such as techonologies and innovations mostly came from Persia (today's Iran) to the South Asia between the two areas, not the other way around. Thus in the ancient world, Persia was much much more important than South Asia in almost every sphere. But we seldom hear media boost the importance of Persia (Iran) , but only India. Why?
The reason is largely that, the last superpower Britain's colonisation of South Asia made it sound much better, in many cases even totally opposite the facts, through British empire propaganda.
Today, many types of media sources we read, listen, watch and refer to , still contain many disinformation about the South Asia f(aka India) from the propagandadistic "scholars"of old British Empire.
One of the examples is that ( I wrote here previously once) a British Raj official called Murray through some superfical research noted down that the Western Chess was invented by Indians in India. Since the British held the supreme power in all spheres on the world stage at 18th-19th century, the World Chess Association blindly recognised this "fact" ONLY because it was British who cliamed it, despite of the moutains of evidences that we Chinese invented the Chess many more centuries earlier than what Murray claimed. - I shall skip the detailed analysis here. But you see the point?
3. Today's India was conquered by any invaders you can name of: Central Asians tribes, Persians, Mogols, Muslims, Turks, the Brits, etc, etc. So what kind of culture it had and has according to common senses? "Indo-aryan culture" ?
Give me a break!
Take a good look at the face of Barack Obama! He is the result of 1 generation mixed race. Then randomly look at an Indian face from any busy Indian street, that is the result of generations upon generations upon generations mix of many tribes. Yes, Caste System was developed thousands years ago to seperate tiny number of light-skinned invaders from the vast sea of indigenous dark skinned servants. After thousands of years of inter-breeding ( yes, between high castes and low castes despite of the strict system in place to prevent it happening), if there was some DNA of Aryan people ( aka Persian stock), they have already become a drop in teh ocren long long time ago. That's why some individual Bollywood stars are soooo precious today in Inida.
4 . Back to the topic, what China/Chinese indeed want to learn the elephant?
race mixing? reinvent zero? Yoga? Buddah ( who bty was from Nepal)? ... I am fastly approaching the limit.
Pathetic!
If mainland China/Han Chinese really want to lean something, look at the East, learn something from Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Korea! Look at the West, learn something from Germans, the Swedes and Dutch! There are enough examples out there. Learn something from the elephant?
is this you want to learn?
is this you want to learn?
http://img693.imageshack.us/i/india2w.jpg/
Or is this you want to learn?
http://img693.imageshack.us/i/india3.jpg/