India V Pakistan

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I had no idea India and Pakistan share so much heritage.

Ladies and gentleman, our local average US-American... Countries bordering each other sharing a heritage? Maybe even having been one country at times? Maybe having been more than 2 countries at times? Maybe existing as two seperate states with varying ownership of the borderlands? How could this happen? Cats and dogs living in peace! The endtimes!

I'm sorry but do you assume that Mexico and the US share a common heritage because they share a border?

[Madner Kami]

I'm sorry but do you assume that Mexico and the US share a common heritage because they share a border?

Obviously. You disagree?

[m4a2000]

I had no idea India and Pakistan share so much heritage.

Ladies and gentleman, our local average US-American... Countries bordering each other sharing a heritage? Maybe even having been one country at times? Maybe having been more than 2 countries at times? Maybe existing as two seperate states with varying ownership of the borderlands? How could this happen? Cats and dogs living in peace! The endtimes!

I'm sorry but do you assume that Mexico and the US share a common heritage because they share a border?

I wouldn't call it heritage but there is a deep history between the US and Mexico with at least one war, an incursion during a revolution, what looked to be the threat of war, and decades of boarder issues.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I had no idea India and Pakistan share so much heritage.

Look up the Partition of India there has been bad blood/history between those two for longer then most of us have been alive (I admit I didn't learn about it in school I learned about it from an episode of Doctor who).

I had no idea India and Pakistan share so much heritage.

Pakistan is basically the second half of India.

The British Empire only technically gave the Indians back their country when they left.

I mean when your first impression of the matter is two distinct teams of border guards appearing to bring it on...

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I had no idea India and Pakistan share so much heritage.

Ladies and gentleman, our local average US-American... Countries bordering each other sharing a heritage? Maybe even having been one country at times? Maybe having been more than 2 countries at times? Maybe existing as two seperate states with varying ownership of the borderlands? How could this happen? Cats and dogs living in peace! The endtimes!

I'm sorry but do you assume that Mexico and the US share a common heritage because they share a border?

I wouldn't call it heritage but there is a deep history between the US and Mexico with at least one war, an incursion during a revolution, what looked to be the threat of war, and decades of boarder issues.

Well yes you could keep using the term heritage at that point, but a war and border tensions isn't exactly the poster definition.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I'm sorry but do you assume that Mexico and the US share a common heritage because they share a border?

Obviously. You disagree?

I don't think the heritage shared between US and Mexico is as rich as that exhibited by the opposing border guards of India-Pakistan.

[TGLS]

I had no idea India and Pakistan share so much heritage.

Ladies and gentleman, our local average US-American... Countries bordering each other sharing a heritage? Maybe even having been one country at times? Maybe having been more than 2 countries at times? Maybe existing as two seperate states with varying ownership of the borderlands? How could this happen? Cats and dogs living in peace! The endtimes!

I'm sorry but do you assume that Mexico and the US share a common heritage because they share a border?

I mean there's literally a subdivision of the country called New Mexico and over 10% of the country speaks Spanish.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I had no idea India and Pakistan share so much heritage.

Ladies and gentleman, our local average US-American... Countries bordering each other sharing a heritage? Maybe even having been one country at times? Maybe having been more than 2 countries at times? Maybe existing as two seperate states with varying ownership of the borderlands? How could this happen? Cats and dogs living in peace! The endtimes!

I'm sorry but do you assume that Mexico and the US share a common heritage because they share a border?

I mean there's literally a subdivision of the country called New Mexico and over 10% of the country speaks Spanish.

I mean though both the colonial histories and the underlying context surrounding interior relations with indigenous cultures is vastly distinctive in comparison.

And I'm really surprised nobody challenged or just brought up the case of common Canadian and US heritage, which is probably even less understood by Americans.

[Madner Kami]

I'm sorry but do you assume that Mexico and the US share a common heritage because they share a border?

Obviously. You disagree?

I don't think the heritage shared between US and Mexico is as rich as that exhibited by the opposing border guards of India-Pakistan.

You're shitting me, right? Just a small example: Cowboy-culture literally came to the US through Mexico. The clothing, the music (particularly guitars) and food can't be more New Spain/Mexico than it is. Beans, corn, salsa, taco tuesday... Heck, cattle-ranching and the horses came from Spain originally.

And I'm really surprised nobody challenged or just brought up the case of common Canadian and US heritage, which is probably even less understood by Americans.

You were the one bringing up Mexico, presumably, given how you presented the question, as the perfect example of no shared heritage and polar opposites, which couldn't be further from the truth.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I'm sorry but do you assume that Mexico and the US share a common heritage because they share a border?

Obviously. You disagree?

I don't think the heritage shared between US and Mexico is as rich as that exhibited by the opposing border guards of India-Pakistan.

You're shitting me, right? Just a small example: Cowboy-culture literally came to the US through Mexico. The clothing, the music (particularly guitars) and food can't be more New Spain/Mexico than it is. Beans, corn, salsa, taco tuesday...

As an American I don't identify with cowboy culture much, as distinctly American as that is. And looking at it, I'm not getting as rich a sense of history as those two border guards.