Reflection on Personal Experiences with Indian Culture and Diversity

This reflective journal explores a student's personal experiences and insights gained from visiting various places in India, focusing on cultural diversity in terms of dressing sense, languages, living styles, and behaviors. The student describes their initial feelings of nervousness and homesickness, followed by the positive impact of interacting with diverse people and experiencing different cultures. The journal evaluates the experience, highlighting the variety of foods as a highlight, while also acknowledging a need for improved time management. Analysis of the experience leads to a conclusion about the value of increased knowledge and experience. The student outlines an action plan to improve time management through scheduling and task completion, aiming to gain more information in less time. The references include various books and journals related to culture and reflection.

Reflection Indian
Culture

Table of Contents
REFLECTION.................................................................................................................................1
Description.............................................................................................................................1
Feelings...................................................................................................................................1
Evaluation...............................................................................................................................1
Analysis..................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................2
Action Plan.............................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

REFLECTION
Description
The following is the reflection of my own experience which I came across at the time of
visiting different places in India and with the help of which I came to know about the diversity in
the country in many ways such as the dressing sense, ways of talking in each other, living styles,
nature, behaviour, colour and many more. So, this helped me in knowing about the diversity in
the places and the change in the languages of people from different places with each other. I
experienced this at looking and interacting with other people and sharing their own experiences
and culture which were different from that of mine. So the places I visited and the interaction
with other people helped me a lot in knowing and exploring more about those places and with
the help of this experience, I knew about many new things which I never thought off and
increased my knowledge and changed my thinking when I interacted with the reality.
Feelings
At the time of interacting with those people, several feelings came into my mind as I had
never come across with these kind of experiences so I was feeling a little bit nervous as I was
missing my home because I was not able to adopt myself according to the nature of new people
and their nature easily. So in the starting it was very hard and difficult to change according to the
environment. As I was surprised by their languages and dressings so they were also surprised by
mine as well. The increased interaction of both the parties which were me and the people of the
places I visited was amazing and gave me a very new and good experience which I unforgettable
for me. It is because many memories are connected with this experience. The diversity is an
amazing thing which differentiates a people from other but their sole identity of being “Indian”
makes them to live for each other and removes the boundaries of caste, religion, cultures, etc.
Evaluation
The best part during the complete course of this experience was related to the variety of
foods and dishes which I ate at the time of having my journey. So this gave me one of the best
experiences of my life which I will never forget during the lifetime. During the complete period
of journey, I was lacking in the proper use of time to manage as I was expecting more to explore
than what I did but due to lack of time, it was not possible for me to make improvement in this
area and get more knowledge and output from my work.
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Analysis
So in future, I will be ever got a chance to do this again, I will make it possible for me to
make proper use of my time and make improvement in the time management skills in order to
know more about the things which I was not able to find out this time.
Conclusion
With the help of increased knowledge of an individual, it will be possible to gain more
knowledge and increase their experiences about the world. Proper management of time will help
in exploring more to new places and will also help in increasing my knowledge regarding to the
facts to which an individual is not unknown.
Action Plan
The improvement in the time management skills will be made with the help of making
and preparing schedules and ensuring proper and timely achievement of the completion of tasks
as per the schedule made. On the basis of accuracy in the management of time, than it will be
possible to have more information about the topic in less time.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bird, S. E. (2018). Dressing in feathers: The construction of the Indian in American popular
culture. Routledge.
Risso, P. A. (2018). Merchants and faith: Muslim commerce and culture in the Indian Ocean.
Routledge.
Sandall, R. (2018). The culture cult: designer tribalism and other essays. Routledge.
Irabor, K., & Warner, M. (2016). Reflection FWI. In SEG Technical Program Expanded
Abstracts 2016 (pp. 1136-1140). Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Gao, Z., & et. al., (2016). Classification of stable Dirac and Weyl semimetals with reflection and
rotational symmetry. Physical Review B. 93(20). 205109.
Novakovich, J. (2016). Fostering critical thinking and reflection through blog‐mediated peer
feedback. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 32(1). 16-30.
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