Sunday, May 15, 2011

Indian herd mentality

My friend was mentioning about this last week during our frequent office coffee sessions:

Our previous generation was obsessed with kid's future. Did everything to secure a future for their kids. Didnt bother about living a life for their own.

The current generation enjoys life - goes for trekking / trips, spends money, buy luxury car before house, takes care of health , concerned about retirement than kid's..

My friend says whatever indians do , they do it same. And in future all Indians will be concerned about corruptions and will be concerned about society rather than self. Then all Indians will do it together and India will be the best place in earth.. ( I believe the social responsibility factor has already started making waves )

India Zindabad !

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Liked your post.. :-)
I agree with first part o the story: [abt trekking, etc] But still, the previous generation was struggling so hard to bring us to a point by sacrificing lots of things... Also, ancestors still go to pilgrimage/to visit some far away temples [I see that compared to trekking of "modern"s]. Essentially, both are just the interests and their shift.
But I disagree with 2nd part: [abt the "same" doings of Indians] This is essentially true for every continent, perhaps the "social" nature. Only some people think and go in tangential direction. That is why iPhone and iPad are popular, in US/everywhere. ;-)

Anoop G said...

I use kindle and blackberry ! :)