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Western Culture And Indian Culture

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Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of people, the way of life, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. Every country has its own culture and traditions. I belong to India which is famous for Hindu culture. In this culture there are many different gods worshiped by different caste and tribe in India. But the most common is Lord Shiva. There are major differences between Western and Indian culture in ideology. As Western culture is open minded in nature and Indian culture is of orthodox views. Another major difference, Western culture is materialistic in nature and Indian Culture is religious in nature. But as time changes both culture’s intersection are witnessed in their culture. Adopting good views like family, love and harmony. In Indian culture adopt one good thing from western culture to providing education to girls and allow them to do job which helps her to support their family member and become independent. Western culture also adopted good views from Indian culture like yoga, meditation for inner happiness of person.
I have been living in USA since 2015 and I notice the difference between Indian culture and United States culture. Here I describe about the family characteristic, In the Western culture mostly people believe in nuclear families. Here people are independent, they do whatever they want like in American culture once children’s reach age of 18, they consider as an adult and they move out from their

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