Whats the Indian way of thinking. What represents the Indian way of thinking. Is it always being ready to cut corners whenever given the opportunity. Is it jumping the signal whenever not seeing the traffic cop, or is it the babu culture we have. I think its more than that.
Here are a few instances at work that I think are typically Indian.
- Always ready with an excuse : Ask somebody about a missed deadline and more often than not what you hear is an excuse. We need to start accepting our shortcomings and work on them.
- Always ready to take a dig on others : Just see the newsgroup we have at office, everywhere someone or the other is throwing some kind of slander on the other. The newsgroup is meant for sharing information and not for proving who is better and who is not. We have a very bad habit of finding something peculiar or bad about others. Someone speaks a different accent, and we start giggling. Someone gets a bashing, and we feel happy. Someones gets an award or even buys a new car, we get jealous.
- We copy - we do what others do. we want our kids to become what other's kid have become. Even when buying furniture we want the same thing as others have got, and we want go to the same place where the neighbor had gone last summer. We are not original in thought and action.
- We can't handle others successes - we just cant.
- We can't accommodate foreigners - We don't even treat people from other parts of our country equally and often blame them for 'stealing' our job. Leave alone the question of welcoming foreigners.
PS : I love my country, and I am proud of being an Indian.
PS: Many of the things above are true for people in other countries and cultures as well, but we need not follow them. Do we ?
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