West born or educated personalities in Indian politics and corporate sector is a norm these days, a clear sign of residue of colonial era still in our blood vessels. When Lord Macaulay decoded, the only way to conquer the 5000 year civilized Indian, making him inferior to west, even he may not have expected to haunt India in the 21st century.
What can be the basis of our fascination to the western ways, or is it quiet natural one! The answer may lies in the social, geographical and cultural back drop of these two races. There is always two different ways of seeing the same thing, one from your heart and other through the brain, when u say heart and brain it’s like trust and distrust.
Its evident Indian culture has more to do with the heart than the brain, always willing to welcome strangers and accept them as their valuable guest. On the other hand west was always skeptical they never talked to anyone without a reason or they never accepted a person for their looks, family or behavior. Being said that it’s appropriate to examine the reasons of such a western attitude.
Unlike India, west never had the liberty to be complacent, lack of natural resources and the farthest climatic conditions made them to be more precise, organized and methodical. They overcome the challenges by the nature, conquered the seas, but again eroding spirituality made them more rational in approach. While the dependent west tried to craft, Self-reliant India being spiritually contemplated believed in destiny.
The fascination may have been mutual, we value the western expertise in technological, scientific and political approach in day to day life, same time they value the cultural and intellectual side of the Indians. Though it may be said the west was only instrumental in refining and putting systems in place with the knowledge and expertise they extracted from the lengths and breadths of the world.
If that’s the case why so many western born and educated Indians are utter confused about themselves, the soul searching gives a gut feeling that; ‘they never learned what they were suppose to learn’. Instead of acquiring the western expertise and retaining the Indian culture, they conjured the western culture hanging on to Indian expertise.
Though we may have accepted and felt inferior to a westerner by choice the west bound confused Indian is demanding to respect and acknowledge him for just being west bound. On the other hand a good integer of erudite Indians who made their foot prints all over the globe with the best of both worlds is a rare distinction.
With the incursion of west bound confused Indians offloading the western culture to the Indians, there is a stark contrast in a good number of westerners who captivated at the essence of India upholding the best of the west.
What can be the basis of our fascination to the western ways, or is it quiet natural one! The answer may lies in the social, geographical and cultural back drop of these two races. There is always two different ways of seeing the same thing, one from your heart and other through the brain, when u say heart and brain it’s like trust and distrust.
Its evident Indian culture has more to do with the heart than the brain, always willing to welcome strangers and accept them as their valuable guest. On the other hand west was always skeptical they never talked to anyone without a reason or they never accepted a person for their looks, family or behavior. Being said that it’s appropriate to examine the reasons of such a western attitude.
Unlike India, west never had the liberty to be complacent, lack of natural resources and the farthest climatic conditions made them to be more precise, organized and methodical. They overcome the challenges by the nature, conquered the seas, but again eroding spirituality made them more rational in approach. While the dependent west tried to craft, Self-reliant India being spiritually contemplated believed in destiny.
The fascination may have been mutual, we value the western expertise in technological, scientific and political approach in day to day life, same time they value the cultural and intellectual side of the Indians. Though it may be said the west was only instrumental in refining and putting systems in place with the knowledge and expertise they extracted from the lengths and breadths of the world.
If that’s the case why so many western born and educated Indians are utter confused about themselves, the soul searching gives a gut feeling that; ‘they never learned what they were suppose to learn’. Instead of acquiring the western expertise and retaining the Indian culture, they conjured the western culture hanging on to Indian expertise.
Though we may have accepted and felt inferior to a westerner by choice the west bound confused Indian is demanding to respect and acknowledge him for just being west bound. On the other hand a good integer of erudite Indians who made their foot prints all over the globe with the best of both worlds is a rare distinction.
With the incursion of west bound confused Indians offloading the western culture to the Indians, there is a stark contrast in a good number of westerners who captivated at the essence of India upholding the best of the west.
