Cultural Profile
India is a high context, collectivist culture, which means that personal relationships are very important and meaning is often implied rather than stated explicitly (Nishimura, Nevgi & Tella, 2008). It is one reason Pio, who is from India, had trouble adjusting to America when he first came here. He was always trying to understand the context of situations even when instructions were explicitly given to him: he thought there was more going on that he was missing and it made him very stressed because he could never figure it out. Pio describes his culture back in India as one in which people come to understand the ways of interacting through experience and convention; individually, the average person in India is of little to no account. In India, emphasis is not placed on individuality the way it is in the US. Pio is a Catholic, which defines his micro culture. In India, Catholics are a minority group; Hinduism is the dominant religious group. Overall, the impression Pio gives of India is that it is a very high context culture with respect to communication. Instructions or communications are never explicit; one has to know the context of the communicationwho is taking part in it, what it is aboutto know how one should conduct oneself. Communication between peers is going to be much different from communication between a superior and an inferior. Even between men and women, communication is different, as in it is almost non-existent unless the man and woman are married. Of course, some in India violate this cultural norm, but it is viewed as a violation and not as an accepted practice in society.
Two major values family tried to instill in Pio were to be masculine...
To be masculine as an Indian Catholic meant to be virtuous and to act properly towards women and towards the family. It is often the case that men in India fail to live up to standards of masculinity and they become self-centered and self-destructive and bring shame and economic ruin to families and their businesses. Pios own family struggled because his brothers did not live up to these values. For Pio it was impressed upon him to have a long-term plan, which fits in with Indias long-term orientation value (Hofstede Insights, 2021): Pio went to school to learn how to work with computer code so that he could get a good job in the IT industry, which is what he did. Pio also did not marry until his parents arranged for him to marry a girl they considered to be a proper match. Pio had some opportunities to date on his own, but he never did because he knew it would violate his parents expectations for him. But mostly Pio learned these values by way of negative examples of what would happen if he did not work towards them.Two examples of communication behaviors that Pio demonstrates are customary in India, which is to eliminate space between people, and another is to establish context for the situation. For instance, in India personal space is not really something that is valued: people pile onto buses and trains and cram into rickshaws and are very used to eliminate space so as to make room for others. It is a very densely populated country and people do not put up many barriers to protect personal space. So when Pio communicates with others, he comes up close to them, which can make non-Indians uncomfortable if they are not familiar with this communication behavior. An example of…
References
Harvard Law. (2021). India’s direct approach to conflict resolution. Retrieved from https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/international-negotiation-daily/in-india-a-direct-approach-to-conflict-nb/
Hofstede Insights. (2021). India. Retrieved from https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/india/
Nishimura, S., Nevgi, A., & Tella, S. (2008). Communication style and cultural features in high/low context communication cultures: A case study of Finland, Japan and India. Teoksessa A. Kallioniemi (toim.), Uudistuva ja kehittyvä ainedidaktiikka. Ainedidaktinen symposiumi, 8(2008), 783-796.
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