Differences in India & America

I’m sitting at LaGuardia airport waiting to fly to Dallas. I decided to compare the differences I’ve found from my trip. There are many differences.
First I’ll start with the driving. The most obvious difference with the driving is that they drive on the left side while we drive on the right side. At first it was weird but the driving distracted me from this fact. Even though lanes are painted on the roads like in America, they don’t actually use the lanes. I guess they’re just guidelines. If you can fit your car (which most of them drive small cars or motorcycles) you can drive there. Even if it’s the shoulder. My drive to work was on a 2 lane street but there were always 5 lanes of traffic.
They honk all the time. But unlike in America its not mean and competitive. They are usually just letting the people around them know they’re moving up or passing.
Language- I’m not talking about the national language (although each area has a specific type of Hindi they speak). I’m talking about cursing. I never heard anyone say anything harsher than “shoot”. It was really nice.
I’ll write more later. The exhaustion is hitting me. Hopefully we’ll be boarding soon so I can close my eyes for a bit.

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