Day 6 - May 27th Sunday

Travel to Hangzhou

While in the plane, we had an interesting conversation with Damon and Jennifer B. Damon started talking about the documentary he saw in the morning on the train system in India. He was really surprised to find out the crowded train systems and the infrastructural problems in India as compared to China. This clarified my thoughts and impressions on the infrastructural advancements made by cities across China as compared to cities in India. Thereafter our discussions went about discussing the various topics from the “National Business systems” class and comparing China, India and to some extent USA. The topics such as education, healthcare, religion, politics, poverty, wealth, etc…raised interesting contrasting opinions. Questions such as “Is the level of education an important indicator of managing and assessing risk or are more educated people more risk averse”, “Does religion play an important role in the politics and well-being of the economy?”, “What factors play an important role in the development of the country and the prosperity of its people?” were thrown around.