Learning Journal #2

[Anirudh Viswanathan]

After analyzing the readings and understanding what I know of Indian culture and the Hindi language, Hindi speakers are a collectivist group. The family is the identity of self and everyone is part of a group and has their own role in that family. There are not many different meanings in India that are different than America. For a third world country, India is one of the few countries where English is spoken fairly well and broadly among the subcontinent. India is definitely a polychronic country when it comes to time. There is always time, and Indians are notoriously late. Everything is rescheduled and time is limitless when it comes to Indians. Having to wait is a normal thing in India, and I have had to witness this on countless occasions. The locus of control in India is external. Until very recently, Indians operated under the caste system in which it was very hard for someone to mobilize between the classes. Instead, hard work was not rewarded with advantages in social class. This is the dichotomy between India( Hindi speakers) and America.