Learning any culture takes a lifetime, not in any limited number of steps. Learning Indian culture in 5 lessons is actually a random list of things as seen by a foreigner, and some of the ways on dealing with them.
At the moment, India is the favorite destination among western companies. So far, the western businessmen who came over are slowly learning that to succeed in business in India means to understand the people first.
Outsiders must know how to see, hear, and feel like the Indians, rather than thinking along the lines of good earnings, favorable contracts, customer satisfaction, low-cost labor and expertise, better business values and all that.
Here are some tips on how to walk, talk, think and feel like an Indian, in random order.
Religion
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When I hear curry, I always think of Indian curry. And to tell you honestly, there had been a time when I thought that its the national food of the seventh largest country on the planet. But thanks to my job as a researcher, Ive begun to learn Indian culture more. With over 20 states, each of which has its own sort of staple food, India sure has contributed a lot in the culinary world. And I found it fascinating that Indian food not only have curious names, which arent exactly easy to spell, but they also have a distinctly (for lack of a better term) Asian taste.
I learned that Indian dishes and ways of cooking vary from place to place. But it can be said that generally Indian dishes… Continue reading
Learning how to communicate in different languages can give you an edge in every endeavor you want to pursue globally. There have been a lot of languages that have been continuously making their marks in worldwide education, business, negotiation, and other simple ways of communication. One particular language receiving a bit of interest is that of Indians due in part to the rising number of emigrants across the globe. Lets flip some pages in order to know more facts about how Indians have made it globally.
There are two ways to categorize people that have been associated with the lands of the subcontinent. The first one is through the term non-resident Indian or simply NRI. This is used to identify individuals having Indian citizenship who were able to migrate to… Continue reading
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