Quintessentially Indian

Indian Society is a collective society. You might have read that somewhere. Geert Hofstede and his study of cultures with IBM employees came to the same conclusion. What might that mean now? It translates like this…We thrive on interfering in others business, are prone to excessive convincing, behaving like your best friend, force-feeding food to strangers among other things. Here is a list of some quintessentially Indian behavioural traits:

1. If you visit our house, we are programmed to force-feed you even if you don’t want to eat. If you don’t eat, we will be pissed. Very pissed.

2. We will ask incessant questions if we see that you are not opening up and will not cease until you have convinced us that you are indeed not troubled.

3. We love dancing. Wherever-Whenever. The more the merrier. And you’d better not be sitting or you are going to be carried to the dance floor.

4. We love taking vacations with our family even at age 30.

5. We love food. It makes our day. Obesity is my worst nightmare. We also love carrying food with us wherever we go.

6. From the moment we set our eyes on you, we behave like your best friends. Don’t worry we wont stalk you.

7. Once we have established that you are indeed our best friends, we would go on to insult you. Do not take this personally.

8. We are great at Math. Calculus here I come!

9. We are genetically programmed to be warm.

10. We love you.