Indian Culture

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The Indian Culture

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Cultural patterns define the people of a country and help in understanding their behavior , mind-set and mode of living . In India , the diverse population of the country shows some singular similarities in communication , inter-personal relations , and views about marriage and family which together constitute the unique structure of the Indian culture . Man-woman equations in the family set-up as well as the position of elders in the house are significant pointers to the culture of

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The Indian Culture

Every culture has its unique characteristics which define its identity and amplify the behavioral pattern of its people . In the Indian context the diverse languages , religions and regions of the vast country play a major part in the multifarious communication and relation markers within the same cultural texture . However , certain qualities remain uniformly similar within the assorted hues of the Indian culture . As Nirad C Chaudhuri writes : modern Indian culture was based on a fusion of two independent and unconnected cultures , the European and the ancient Indian ( The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 474 . The effect of long-term British colonization and the rich heritage of the Sanskrit past combine to give the Indian culture its distinctive color and identity

By nature , Indians are usually verbose and like sharing /discussing ideas with each other , at times personal problems , even communicating thoughts on public issues from politics to sports . Greetings are usually with folded hands (and the accompaniment of `Namaste ' in Hindi...