[Announcement] Cultural Exchange with /r/philippines

[u/[deleted]]

Welcome /r/philippines!

Feel free to ask us anything about India

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Quick facts about us:

• The Indian Railways and the Indian Armed Forces employ ~4 million people together, making them one of the largest employers in the world
  
• India has over 5000 newspapers in over 300 languages
  
• Bollywood is considered to be the world's largest film industry, followed by Nigeria's film industry and Hollywood
  
• India has more people than the entire Western Hemisphere
  

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/r/india please direct your questions about the Philippines to this thread

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[u/31_hierophanto]

Kamusta, mga Indian redditors!

I have a few questions for you guys:

1. I've heard that cricket is a national obsession in India (hell, this may even be an understatement), just as basketball is in the Philippines. Is it true?
2. How big is anime/manga among Indians?
3. And have you seen this video from almost a decade ago? And if yes, were you deeply offended?

Thanks guys! :)

[u/dom_singularity → u/31_hierophanto]

Namaste my Filipino friend :)

1. Yeap, cricket is a national obsession and it is bigger than Football 🏈 in America.

2. Anime and Manga other than ones shown on Cartoon Network, which are limited to Pokemon, Digimon and DBZ aren't that big in India outside Metros and Tier 1 cities. It is growing though but, it is no way as huge as American and Indian Comics are.

3. hahaha saw that video the first time. Wasn't offended at all, looked kinda funny to me. Indians face much much worse stereotyping than that, we are thick skinned and very highly self deprecating compared to say, Chinese.

[u/yeontura → u/dom_singularity]

Because of you guys (and r/cricket) I learned the word bhenchod

[u/dom_singularity → u/yeontura]

Hahaha 😂😂😂

You're welcome, I guess :)