Hello Friends,
Today, I m going to discuss about some points regarding what should have to learn India from Americans.
Dignity of Labor: There is no "small job" - work is work. Irrespective of you being a plumber or a waiter or a cab driver etc., People are proud of what they do, are not ashamed to say what/where they work.
Value of Life: Irrespective of it being human or animal, both are valuable. Folks here will go at any length to save/rescue living beings. Animals included. People have died saving animals! In India, people prefer being mere spectators to injured humans/animals (and will crowd around) but not help or do something.
Pride (of who they are): I don't mean superiority complex. Just proud (not in the derogatory sense) of being who they are. I know SO MANY Indians who have a self inflicted inferiority complex for reasons I don't comprehend. I don't get it. Everybody is different, but it's not something to be worried about. Accept it, be confident and live with it. It'll make you a lot happier.
Fit/active cops: Seriously. Fit = Active/Alert. (You do find obese cops in LAPD etc., but not on the field. Definitely not as often as in India).
we can see in below photograph.
CBI is not even close to FBI and same is the case with RAW and CIA.
American follow rules in a very strict way specially traffic rules. They tend to give way for the person trying to cross the road unlike Indians who are always in a hurry and often partially run over the guy struggling to cross the road.
Cleanliness: Americans are conscious about the cleanliness specially about public place. You won't find people in US taking leak on some boundary wall side of a busy road. Very few people in India don't even think before throwing garbage on the road. How many of us would have thrown away wrappers of chocolate, Chips, Supari, Gutkha, Paper plates etc. at least once in their life on the road itself.
Education:- The US education system focuses on intellectual improvement. The Indian one focuses on getting marks in an exam and pushing through the rat race. I've seen countless people in India who just know enough to pass the exam, but don't know what it all means. There's no point to this king of education.
Independence
American children are taught to be independent from quite early on. Earning their own allowance via chores when they're younger and actual jobs while they're older is part of this. Getting kicked out from home once you join college is another -- your parents place is a place to visit, not a place to stay in. In the most part, the choices of the American youth are their own. Not their parents'. Sure, there's a bit of influence here and there, but not much. This sort of independence IMO, is a good thing, that should be appreciated and incorporated (at least in part) by India.
Civic sense
This is one of the biggest differences. In the States, people keep stuff clean even if they don't have to. Folks don't cut lines, nobody pushed. And none of that incessant honking even when in a traffic jam (or making a three lane road into 6). Most Americans subconsciously leave things the way they'd like them to be found. Not allthe time, but the civic sense is a few orders of magnitude greater than that of the average metropolitan Indian. They avoid doing things which are illegal or would make the situation worse for someone else, even if it would smoothen the road for them.
Politics
No caste based politics. There is no direct constitutional support for party politics (India's constitution assumes that everyone has a party). Politics isn't played that dirty, and is fun to follow (usually).
Separation of business and personal lives
Once you leave for home in the US, you are not expected to reply to any emails or anything. You're officially done for the day. No calls, no email after this time. (Unless there's an emergency or a pre-planned conference call or something). In India, you're expected to reply ASAP to all emails and respond to all calls 24/7. You get paid for a 9-5 job but you end up working day in and day out.
Punctuality/lack of procrastination
In the US, "procrastination" means "starting to work on 4-week report a week before the due date". In India, it means "starting to work on a 4 week report the night before it is due". Sometimes not even that.
Respect
I find that in India there is a lot of blind respect given to elders. And a lot of importance is given to what I term as "false respect". For example, one cannot question what an elder says (in some societies); not even ask why. One just listensand obeys. I get that elders are more experienced and should be respected. But one should learn from their experience; not just blindly follow. I have known people who have some oppressive members in their family who are listened t due to their seniority -- and who misuse this power for their own gain.
Not to arrest people for their comments on Facebook.
And:
USA: If you attack us, we will attack you.
INDIA: If you attack us we will not play cricket with you.
We living in a developing country like India have tendency of our work getting done by others due to cheap labour. We should shed this idea and work on our own to do tasks realted to us , affecting us. It can be anything ranging from cleaning your toilet, gardening, plumbing, etc.
No work is small. If its related to us, we shud take responsibilty
It's weird but Indians are kind of against saying "thanks" when some one passes on a plate to you from across the table or the bearer at the restaurant brings food to your table or pulls your chair for you to sit. Often, a lot of Indians think that saying "thanks" for small things like these is not justified and this is made fun of, in a lot of circles I have been in. Americans on the other hand, I have noticed, say thanks for a lot of small things that people do for them throughout the day. This is one thing, that we really need to learn from them.
