paper 8 the cuktural studies - american culture vs. indian culture
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Name : Vora Kiran Shamaldas.Class : M.A Sem. 2
Roll no. 13Paper no. 8 Cultural Studies
Topic : American Culture vs. Indian CultureEmail Id : [email protected]
Submitted to: Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of
English M. K. Bhavnagar University.
American Culture VS.
Indian Culture
What are the differences between these two cultures
Some similaritiesPopular culture – beliefs and mythHow Americans represents India in their
popular culture
Differences between American and Indian CultureNo two cultures are the same. While American culture is mixer
of different cultures the Indian culture is unique and has its own values.
India is still a developing country while America is developed country, nation in power.
Indian culture is one of the oldest cultures in the world while American culture is modern culture.
One of the major differences can be seen between American and Indian culture is Family relations. While the Indians are very much Family oriented and Americans are individually oriented.
In Indian culture a person may give up his/her happiness and wishes for the sake of family, but America this trend cannot be seen.
Political system – U. S. is the world’s oldest democracy and India is the world’s largest democracy
Americans believe in dominating nature and controlling the environment around them but Indians believe in the harmony with the nature.
Americans are more independent and Indians are dependent on others.
Children – Americans freely discuss love life with parents, hide love life from parents.
Parents – encourage children to be independent Indian parents encourage children to be depended.
Society plays an active part in a person’s life, every decision he/she takes it reflects what society thinks about it.
In American culture society doesn’t take an active part people take decision depending on what they want not what society thinks
In India girls are most commonly taught about cooking and boys are taught about family business
In America every one has his/her own choice about what thy want to learn or do, nobody is forced to do anything
In Indian culture family selects bride or groom for their children to marry
In American culture mostly love marriages happensClothing style – in Indian culture women should wear not too
revealing and tight but in American culture women wear as they desire.
India is still a man driven society where women are still not considered equal to men
In America women are equal to men in society In school or colleges an intelligent student is more popular and
importantBut in America intelligent student being called as “nerd” is not so
famous or important rather a person whom people make fun of. Indian food is heavily spiced and is rich in its flavor, in America
basis of food is meat, it is an essential part of every meal.American – has law budget – eats at Macdonald’s – high budget
eats at fancy Indian restaurant Indian – has law budget – eats home made Indian food - high
budget – eats at Macdonald’s.
Caste system and Racism
in India the untouchables were treated in very ill manner, with no respect.
they had to sit at a distance from “upper castes”
They were not even allowed to enter in temples of upper caste.
In America, Africans were treated in a harsh manner. They were the slaves of the community.
They had no rights, when they got their rights still they were treated in ill manner, badly and with disrespect.
In some region they had to sit at a distance from white people.
In the both countries there is same racism against lower classes in society.
Multiculturalism – Multi vs. Mix India is a country in
which every state has a different culture and identity, we can say it is multi-cultural nation and its like Salad bowl, different things live together.
Different festival celebration, languages, clothes, cultural values food as well as life style in every state of India. Many different religions are there.
America is rather a Melting pot where people came from different courtiers and live in America and mostly forget about their own culture and influenced by American culture, and here a major aspect could be Racism also.
In America there are many people who are not native Americans, different languages, festival celebration, cultural values are different. People of different religion live with their beliefs.
Popular culture – myth and beliefsIn India we still believe in
Chudel, Dayan and atma.Our Hindi television gets
more TRP by showing this kind of daily soaps and major of the Indians watch this kind of shows.
Like sasural simar ka, bhram rakshas, nagin and kavach and all. In 2017 still these shows have more public to see this crap. this is rether becoming a hurdle in our development of country.
In AmericaIn America still werewolves
and vampires are popular, people believed that they existed. And still in popular culture many books are written and many TV series and movies are made on this concept in still it’s popular widely.
Teen Wolf is an American TV series which is popular in India also is about werewolf.
Twilight, Vampire diaries. There are many popular books
from American youth which have concept of werewolf and got millions of reads.
WEREWOLVES
American representing bad image of India in their popular culture
The Big Bang Theory is one of the most popular American TV series. it has 10 seasons.
In this show there is an Indian character named Rajesh Koothrappli who studied PhD in America and lives there with his American friends.
Rajesh’s character is build up in way that Indians are like this only, even Raj himself says he doesn’t want to go back to India. Many people think this is an insult, still our Indian channel broadcasts it everyday.
Quantico series season 1 (2015) in which Priyanka Chopra is in the lead role of Alex Parrish who is the main suspect of terrorist attack in New york, why? Being half Indian.
Even in the popular American cartoon Phineas and Ferb, there’s an Indian character Baljeet, who is smart in mathematics but still dumb in many ways comparing to American kids, and it is easy to bully him.
