Post on Culture

  I read this article from the internet.  The article pertains to Indian Culture and what it inspires its members to accomplish in life.  Being born into Indian culture is not better nor worse than American culture.  American culture just happens to be more technologically advanced.  In Indian culture, a girl is a liability and a boy is an asset.  Boys are able to help work in the fields, where daughters will require dowries to marry off.  Elders are a huge part of Indian culture, along with treating guests as deities.  Elders are respected not only out of culture tradition, but also out of pure love.  This is because the elders make the villages work.  The culture respects guests because they feel it is always their duty.  This can be seen through Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya.  Whenever Kenny comes to Ruku's village, Ruku always praises him and worships him.  Sometimes Kenny even tells Ruku to stop because he does not feel he deserves it.  Kenny feels he has done minimal to help the village in their times of suffering.  Although the American and Indian cultures are very different, the Indian culture seems much more loving and caring than the other one.  " India Culture."  Indian Child.  2008.  22 February 2009.  < http://www.indianchild.com/culture%20_1.htm >.