So, in 1985 when my family (the 5 of us then), (Myself, my wife and our 3 children ages 10, a boy, 12, a girl and 14, a boy decided to go to India, Nepal, Thailand, Japan and maybe Hong Kong for up to 6 months on Open ended airline tickets that would allow us to do this inexpensively ($6000) for 5 tickets then open ended. So, we flew first to Narito Airport near Tokyo in First Class seating in a Boeing 747 all 5 of us on December 11th 1985. We wanted to go in to see Tokyo from Narito Airport but they wanted $300 just to ride the train into Tokyo from the Airport and for a family (my wife and I were 37 at the time) it just seemed like too much money to justify doing that if we were planning to stay in Asia up to 6 months time because our business was back near San Francisco. We had taken the kids out of school in their first week in December and they didn't return to school near San Francisco until may of 1986. I remember that our 14 year old got the nickname "Too Tall Legends" because people in the U.S. couldn't believe the things we had actually done.
And it's true that unless you went to another planet than earth, you likely couldn't imagine what our experiences were especially in Nepal and India at that time. You might have believed Thailand and Japan but unless you had been there in India and Nepal in 1985 and 1986 you never would have believed what we experienced in a million years.
So, "Too Tall Legends" actually makes complete sense of what we actually experienced then.
When we were planning this trip we wondered what we should take for up to 6 months gone from the U.S. For example, because I'm 6 foot 5 inches tall I likely knew I couldn't buy clothing in India or Nepal because the average height of people there was about 5 foot 6 for men and maybe 5 feet for women. So, to most people I would be a giant which they would equate with something good or bad depending upon their superstitions. And most people we would see and meet likely had never seen a white person in their whole lives except maybe on TV if they even had a TV.
Since most people in India and Nepal then hadn't been to school at all (about 60% to 70% had never even been to school a day in their lives) we literally were like E.T. Gold plated aliens who fell out of the sky to them. and hundreds of people (literally) begged us to take them back to the U.S. with us. Because many believed the streets were paved with Gold here in the U.S. so little did they know about what life was actually like here in the U.S. then. So, even us with high school diplomas and some college (I had had about 8 years of college studying computer science, Philosophy, psychology, and after we returned to California 4 months later I also studied Cultural Anthropology because at that time my wife and I were thinking we wanted to help preserve Tibetan Culture as Anthropologists, so we both studied Cultural Anthropology at UCSC in the late 1980s and early 1990s. However, since my now ex-wife and I broke up in 1994 we never became anthropologists because our lives went in very different directions after that and I remarried in December 1995 and now have been remarried almost 25 years at this point.
So, both of us then were 37 years old and our kids were amazed and horrified (both) at many things we experienced on this trip (like dead people in the streets that were never picked up sort of like road kill here in the U.S.) The difference culturally there is that you never help anyone unless you are going to hire them for life as a maid or house boy or something like that. This is the main difference in India. This is true just because there are just too many people to help there.
But, remember there are a lot of changes there now 34 years later because for example, The India Institute of Technology (like our MIT or Cal Tech here in the U.S.) has brought billions of dollars through successful techs from India back to India from all over the world now 34 years later. So, many of these Indian Tech geniuses have become philanthropic and brought some or all of their money back to India to help people. So, the dot com boom worldwide and because English is spoken by educated people all over India (which is the least offensive language spoken there by the way to most people). And there are at least 300 languages spoken in India other than English. But, if you are educated in India at all you also speak English too. This allowed many to become successful in the dot com Tech industry worldwide, especially if they graduated from IIT in India. So, in some ways IIT graduates have become the Backbone of the dot com Tech Industry worldwide since the 1980s because there are so many IIT geniuses at work as programmers and business owners in the field.
India Population 2019 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs)
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India's 2019 population is estimated at 1.37 billion based on the most recent UN data. India, located in South Asia, is bordered by the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian ...
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Population: 1,324,171,354 (2016 est.)
Birth rate: 19.3 births/1,000 population (2016 e...
Growth rate: 1.19% (2016) (96th)
Death rate: 7.3 deaths/1,000 population (2016 ...
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May 3, 2019 - Year wise population of India from 1950 to 2100 by United Nations. Decade wise population from 1901 to 2011 Acc to Census 2011.
India's population growth will come to an end: the number of children ...
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The total population in India was estimated at 1283.6 million people in 2017, according to the latest census figures. Looking back, in the year of 1950, India had a population of 359.0 million people.
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