I'm writing an essay. Is this semi-colon used appropriately or should it be a new sentence?

At the age of six, India seemed like a completely different world to me; they had a different way of life than anything I had ever been exposed to.

1 answer

The semicolon is correct.

However, to what or whom are you referring with the pronoun "they"?

If you're referring to India, the pronoun should be "it."