East is East, and West is West. The two shall never meet.

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment seat;

But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,

When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!"


The first line is a famous line from the poem "The Ballad of East and West" by Rudyard Kipling.


I believe that there is no fundamental difference between the East and the West. We are all humans and the racial distinction is artificial and man-made. It's not a fundamental law of nature.


Do you think that the East (Asia) and the West (Europe) can never meet? Why or why not? Feel free to express your opinion frankly.

Debesh Choudhury, PhD

Information Security Researcher, Academician, Entrepreneur | Password & Cybersecurity, Digital Identity, Biometrics Limit, 3D Education | Linux Trainer | Writer | Podcast Host

5 年

East and West very nicely meet and Mix in the field of Music .. I like this musical meeting very much .. as for example the Sitar Concerto of Pandit Ravi Shankar and London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta .. from a record -?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoUA5uSnoHg (I had experienced their rehearsal sessions at the Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata in 1985)

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