Unity in Diversity Skit

. One factor that creates cultural difference is India’s nine religions. Ancient India consisted of three religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. All three ancient religions are part of the nine religions today. Statistics have shown that 827 million (80.5%) have returned themselves as followers of Hindu religion, 138 million (13.4%) as Muslims or the followers of Islam, 24 million (2.3%) as Christians, 19 million (1.9%) as Sikh, 8 million (0.80%) as Buddhists and 4 million (0.4%) are Jain (Religion). I don’t

Nanda notes that the Indians’ success in the global market have attributed to Hindu values. These are constantly promoted by media and politicians. Ultra nationalism, worshiping Hindu gods and India itself has become a civil religion.

The idea that economic development will lead to democratization and democratic consolidation generally holds for most cases. More often than not, increasing economic development increases the probability that any given society will have democratic politics. Although this theory is widely spread it does not seem to account for all cases, such as India. Due to the large population of India, the defying factors against modernization theory are not easily overlooked. Many scholars have been analyzing the deviant case for years, trying to find out how they defied the modernization theory. India is considered a deviant case because it only recently began to see notable economic development, and for most of the twentieth century the country was profound poor. Looking through the modernization theory it would lead us to believe that India was ruled by an authoritarian regime due to their poor economics. Because they defy this belief and have been a democratic country for a prolonged time it is evident that India does not conform to the modernization theory. India’s democracy emerged amidst severe poverty, widespread illiteracy, and a largely agrarian and rural population characterized by vast linguistic and ethnic diversity. However, India was able not only to transition to but also consolidate a robust democratic system that has survived for over sixty years. The historical process of Indian democratization challenges the central premise of

India and the United States of America are two of the world’s largest and prominent democracies. In the past few decades, they have conquered a significant progress in development and globalization. The geographical setting of the two countries is no more a barrier and the credit goes to the perpetually evolving technology which has abridged the factor of distance greatly,

Indians many times have been associated with funny accents, believers of caste system, culture that is full of colors and very smart people in math and technology. Indians make up less than 1% of the population of America and yet they are the CEO’s of “PepsiCo and MasterCard” and are presidents and deans of America’s most prestigious colleges and hold high positions in journalism such as Sanjay Gupta and neurosurgeon and media reporter for CNN here in Atlanta and Fareed Zakaria a journalist and author. “They are also dominating fields such as technology, scientific research and medicine; and thriving in industries such as hospitality, transportation and real estate. They have also achieved extraordinary success in government: the governors of two of America’s most conservative states are of Indian origin, as are White House senior

Unbeknownst to the masses, information had been controlled by the oligarchy for the sake of “national security” or economic and social cooperation. Although this had been a theme throughout hundreds of dystopian novels, such overarching influence is lamentably applied in societies throughout the world. Historically, nation/states across the globe have manipulated information regarding controversial events to maintain the national identity, of which had facilitated cooperation by creating a common enemy. Throughout history, the majority have made minorities the scapegoats during times of crises and socioeconomic turmoil, validating the injustices performed against them. This strategy of garnering cooperation throughout the masses through prejudice allowed them to survive events such as the Great Depression, World Wars and insidious campaigns all while maintaining morale, but there has been overwhelming evidence that any type of nationalism, despite the intention, is detrimental. Unfortunately, in constituting love for one’s nation through hate, one would need to constantly find a demographic minority to do so. Such has been the case not only throughout the United States’ history but is also present in India’s history where true events have been convoluted and objectivity is nonexistent.

At a very early age, kids are taught about the fundamentals of the great country of which they are a part of. Often children are shown Schoolhouse Rock videos to induce them to want to learn, for example, the “The Great American Melting Pot” video. The “Melting Pot” video attempts to teach children how different people with different cultures came to America and were able to mix. Even though the “Melting Pot” explains how a vast number of people with different cultures came together to be American, the song and the video do not coincide. The song lyrics would be considered Liberal Multiculturalism, while what the video itself portrays would be Conservative Multiculturalism, demonstrating how kids were being taught

On the other hand, India has spent a majority of its history as a colony of England. It was not until 1947 that India became an independent nation state, after a grassroots nationalist movement started by Gandhi, and even then they were a one party congress. They are also an interesting case of democracy because of how many unfavorable aspects towards it they had, such as high inequality, many peasants, and many different languages and religions (Lecture). In 1956, India was broken up into states by the States Reorganization Act, that made state lines based on linguistic group. India’s founding leaders mirrored the ideas of America, in balancing states rights with a central government (Sil, 2014). They have also more recently gone through a liberalization of their economy. India is unique in the way that their social hierarchy is constructed because of the fact that they have a caste system. The caste system is a combination of religious practice and community organization that is a part of Hinduism (Sil, 2014). This system was officially demolished in the country, but in the country it is still very prevalent, and the focus on helping those who were in lower castes succeed has made people more aware of the way they institute social policies.

Located in southwestern Asia, India created 28 state boundaries and became an independent nation in 1947 (Morrison and Conaway, 2012). The currency is the Indian Rupee (INR) which has a conversion rate of 64.152 to 1 U.S. Dollar (UNCTAstat, 2015). Approximately 80 percent of India’s population are Hindus, although, Islam is also a prominent religion in India (Morrison and Conaway, 2006). Hindi and English are recognized as the official languages of India. However, each state has the right to establish “schedule” languages such as Bodo, Kannada, Oriya and Tamil (Morrison and Conaway, 2012). The government of India is the largest democracy in the world and power is divided between national and

As Indian citizens are divided by language, religion, traditions and cultures, sometimes it is an advantage and a disadvantage. Because of the diversity, it is hard to communicate within the country. In addition, it is hard for other cultures to understand the Indian culture because of its heterogeneous composition. Another major disadvantage of belonging to two cultures, Indian & American, is the feeling of fitting in. As immigrants, we are often torn between two worlds. We struggle with identity. My children sometimes feel they don’t fit in here and when

Contemporary comparative erudition on the topic of nationalism proposes another reason for India’s democratic survival. Under the independence movement, with the governance of Gandhi, Nehru and the Congress party turned what formerly had been a cultural unit into a nation with a cultural political unit. This transformation perpetuated Indian democracy: “There has to be a political unit before there can be a democracy” The strategic communications between British authorities and national movement leaders also laid the fundamentals of democracy. No historical explanation can be comprehensive unless it takes the “agency” of India’s freedom movement into justification – with the attainment of India’s autonomy. (Varshney 1998: 38)

Throughout time the country of India and it’s citizens have been subject to large-scale violence on a national and international level. Events such as the Partition and 9/11 have impacted people of Indian nationality in insurmountable ways. People of Indian nationally have not only been experiencing violence in their own country, but also in the other countries around the world that they have migrated to over time. Post 9/11 Indians and Indian-Americans were victims of hate crimes solely based on their appearance due to the Western image of Muslims and Islam.

Put a light on certain misconceptions. India has been divided into three parts which are north

The Indian population is generally classified on two bases: linguistic and religious. The religious classification is more impressive and arresting for the foreigner. One who is interested in the struggle of the masses must

A few disadvantages of India’s social system are that Religion, caste, and language are major determinants of social organizations. According to the US Department of State-Background Notes website, even though the government has declared the caste system as illegal, it still has a presence in occupational and societal hierarchies (The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs, 2010).