Who's superior in culture & Lifestyle? India or America?

My take - America's superior in culture... coz although v speak of indian culture & stuff, it's not much existent in contemporary India... v hv got it all mixed up with the west... so, v haven't got much of an identity ourselves which v used to possess a century ago... whereas Americans hv it well-sorted out... That's what culture is all abt... it's the way of life & the thinking of the citizens of a nation...& regd lifestyle...both of the countries r @ the same level, but in very diff ways...most of us Indians stay with our family, v dont hv very strict rules & regulations around, & v r not much into recession...America scores on the per capita income level & self-service idea of life..But the way things r going with the Indians taking on all the bad stuff from their lifestyle like drinking, live-in relationships etc, I expect America to beat India @ this too, sooner or later...so on the whole, sadly, America tops...
America, or for that matter, Germany & Japan were destroyed completely after WW2...but they r still the world's most developed economies...coz finally, it boils down to the hard work of the citizens to raise their motherland.

I don't think India lost some of it's culture just coz v were in the British influence for 2 centuries...coz we r noticing an increase in the cultural & economic disparities in the last 15-20 years rather than immediate post-independence. In fact, Brits made things easier for us..they gave us postal system, railways, telephones etc while they were here. Otherwise India still would hv been counted in the underdeveloped countries even after having much more money with us which the British stole away...

Social well-being & economic development do not always complement each other... i'll give u an example...

China, which has the world's 3rd largest GDP, is the fastest developing economy in the world...the per capita income of an avg Chinese is much higher than that of an avg Indian...It is the backoffice & the factory of the entire world....But know what...no Chinese wants to be reborn as a Chinese... it's a strongly communist nation...the govt treats the people over der as machines, not humans...china is progressive, it's got tons of money, got gr8 infrastructure building underway, everything appears rosy....but at what cost?? human lives & humanity...der's no respect 4 an individual...it's abt the collective society.

...no personal choice or individual freedom...which r more imp than fast pacing collective development for some future gen to enjoy at the cost of oppresing the present one...



So, the point i'm tryin to make is that standard of living & quality of life do not always go hand in hand...



India might have produced many business tycoons stalwarts...but the life of an avg Indian is deteriorating day by day...The GDP growth might be very high, but the gap between the rich & poor is increasing too...if the no. of rich ppl is increasing, the no. of poor is also following suit...this is not the case in America or any other European nation. The disparity is not so vast. We speak of making Mumbai a Shanghai & hv built the Bandra-Worli sea-link as a starter...but look at Dharavi too, which is the world's largest slum, also in Mumbai...

What we have lost is our" cultural homogeneity"... We do many things which is Indian, but we also do many things which directly ape from the west....the way we dress up, the transition of the spoken language from Hindi to English, etc...
However, the west has hardly copied anything from us... Thus it has maintained its culture, while we r in a state of cultural instability...



As far as the lifestyle is concerned, tell me one thing...don't you believe, we, the youth, are living almost an American lifestyle...We subconsciously believe that their lifestyle is better than us, which is a fact...
My point is we have not retained our Indian culture...We have deviated towards the western culture...so, how can our culture be superior to theirs?
Same with the lifestyle...
India might be better than America in a few things like spiritual enlightenment, concept of joint family etc...but we need to conserve those aspects of Indian culture...
Most of the European nations, Australia & even America was under the British colonial rule...And what could be more worse than WW2???? in which the world's currently leading economies like USA, Germany & Japan were completely destroyed...They had to start from the scratch....What these nations r today, it's only after the end of WW2, which is very close to the time we got independence...So, India got the same time as them to develop, but look at the scenario now...