Cultural Differences: A Reflection on India and Australia

This essay is a reflection on the cultural differences observed by a student who moved from India to Australia for higher education. The author discusses the challenges of adapting to a new culture, including leaving family and friends, and the support received from new acquaintances. The essay explores the differences between Indian and Australian cultures across several dimensions including individualistic versus collectivistic values, communication styles (high-context vs. low-context), power distance, and approaches to conflict resolution. The author also provides a comparison of the two countries based on factors such as population, GDP per capita, economic sectors, public debt, and racial demographics. Further, the essay includes a historical overview of both India and Australia, touching upon key events and influences, and highlights the reasons for choosing Australia for higher studies, such as the country's low pollution levels, multicultural society, and opportunities for work and study. The essay concludes with a comparison of the British colonial experiences in both countries, and offers a comprehensive overview of the cultural contrasts observed by the student.

Reflection

I moved to Australia for my higher education, which was a difficult decision for me. The
most difficult
part was leaving my family and place. I was really sad for leaving my parents,my friends and my
home.
The day I moved to Australia I was very , I didn’t has any support emotionally and mentally.
Although I met new people in Australia. They motivated me to cope up with my depression, I
got a good support from my new friends and this helped me a lot in settling in a new country.
Difference I observed in Australian and Indian culture
Individualistic: Australians put more imperative complement on the self, esteem their
independence from social occasion. They give high a motivating force to self-serving targets and
practices and have singular control over their choices. They quickly recognize blame and expect
commend. Respect is always earned through individual undertakings. They furthermore believe
in doing their own specific thing and hereafter have balance of work as a component of their
standard culture. So a head's life partner can more then likely be an 'all the more spotless'
Collectivistic: Indians depend exceptionally on the family, or social events, for they are
influenced by the get-together contemplations and guarantee steadfastness to the get-together.
Indians even address themselves in the total pronoun. e.g. 'aap', mumble, et cetera. An amazing
regard is put on commitment and tradition. We respect people for their status, like senior
residents, rich, high rank, director et cetera.
Work and game plans is gotten from accumulate status, so it is to a great degree remarkable to
find a parking space repairman in a gathering of designers.
For example we may not be powerful in pitching things to an aussie in case we influence his
emotions towards his family. While offers to his own particular points of interest will weigh
seriously on him.
In spite of the fact that various Indians can be influenced if we approach him to buy a present for
his mother or diverse more established people. Leeway to the family, or social affair can affect
their buying styles.
Low setting correspondence culture. Australians rely upon vernacular to mean just unequivocally
that. A prompt and savvy conclusion can be gotten from their talk plans. There's no 'avoiding the
main problem'
For example an Australian will rotate and say, "Look I'm not content with your call. Generously
don't inconvenience me afresh." Here we can see the aussie trust in solitary appraisal or self-
verbalization.
High setting correspondence culture. Indian messages are astoundingly honest and overpowering
with proposals. The decoder needs to channel through the setting to appreciate the shrouded
significance.
In spite of the fact that an Indian will state 'Look I'm definitely interested, yet would you have
the capacity to please call me later? I'm possessed comfortable point.'

I have also analysed that Indians get a kick out of the opportunity to cover any trace of
disappointment go up against and are managing the total face of the visitor and self, to avoid
humiliation.
Low power isolate culture Aussies confide in one individual as being correspondingly on a
standard with the other, and therefore have disposed of differentiations in social, work, guideline,
et cetera get-togethers. In this way they need to call and be tended to with their first names rather
than titles.
There is alongside no detachment between the CEO and the cleaner and no alarming movement
to baffle accommodating communication. High control expel culture
I have also analysed that pSince there are various classes, in an Indian culture and since it's
fundamental to keep them unmistakable,
high power partitions are unequivocally clung to.
For example even while talking with a dark youth we have a tendency to use the total pronoun.
To pass on news or points of view, we by and large take after the most ideal channels rather than
approach the hotshot particularly.
As ought to be self-evident, it might create the impression that Australians are rude, and
coldblooded, and require circumspection, since they express their points of view freely.
On the other hand Indians with their pregnant and subtle conversational gambits appear
as obscure, smart and underhand to the following society.
Associations are favored with others of relative inclinations and orientations.
Friendships are carefully blended with self-status and part of social affair having a place.
Australians clutch change as inevitable and novel. Traditions are clung to with
wonderful enterprising nature.
Aussies tend to deal head-on with strife and disperse any disarray air instantly.
Whereas Indians avoid, ignore, or persevere battle.
Aussies don't bring work home, and keep it unmistakable and discrete, as a noteworthy part of
their lifestyle.Indians see fill in as their god and are incorporated significantly in doing it.
Aussies tend to confide in making own destiny and are sole battlers. Indians
generally have confidence in predetermination with a "what might I have the capacity to do?"
perspective.
I have also analysed that popAussies can be seen as materialistic with beside no religious input.
Indians put authenticity second to their most significant feeling of being, more are
god-fearing.
Reason to move to Australia
 The reason why I selected Australia for higher studies
 Outside Air
 We Australia has one of the minimum air pollution levels on the planet.

2. Untainted Nature Up
Australia has a tremendous grouping of amazing general conditions. We have splendid
sandy shorelines with clean water, tropical rainforests, completely dry abandons and covered
mountains. There are in excess of 500 national stops in Australia and 14 world heritage districts.
3. Multicultural Society
Australia is really a multicultural society. 43% of Australians were either considered
abroad or have a parent who was imagined abroad (Santoro, 2014). Consistently we compliment
our tolerable assortment on Harmony Day (21 March).
4. Low people thickness
Australia has the most insignificant people thickness of any landmass on the planet with
only 6.4 people for each square mile.
5. Climate
Australia has a quiet air with delicate atmosphere enduring during that time and more
than what's going to its of light.
6. Restorative administrations structure
Australia has a champion among the most gainful human administrations systems on the
planet (Woollacott, 2015). Medicare gives key prosperity spread to all Australians and there is a
private restorative administrations structure moreover.
7. Openings for work
Australians pride themselves on coming full circle a work-life alter. With a strong economy and
low joblessness rate (around 5%) Australia is a not too bad place to find another movement.
8. Laid back lifestyle
Australians have a reputation for being laid back and all around arranged and what's more it is as
a general rule clear. People are altogether more inclined to give you the period of day in
Australian urban territories differentiated and diverse urban regions around the world (). There's
in like manner a moderately low bad behavior rate.
9. Phenomenal place to development
I have witnessed that Australia is such a colossal country, to the point that you can spend
every one of your events exploring it. Family unit travel has everything from rainforests,
shorelines, to ski-resorts and stunning old scenes.
10. Uncommon open entryways for mull over
Australia has an extraordinary number of study options for worldwide understudies with
more than 1,200 foundations and 22,000 courses to investigate. Australia has the third most lifted
number of overall understudies on the planet behind the UK and US notwithstanding the way
that we have an altogether more diminutive people than those countries (Malik, 2016). I have
become acknowledged that Both Australia and India are past British states with a reverence for

cricket; nevertheless, Britain's energy for each wa hugely phenomenal. In India, Britain expected
to benefit. In Australia, Britain required a dumping ground for the overall public it thought to be
human waste.
The assorted motivations in each land impacted how Britain independently supervised
them. In India, Britain mishandled a past position system in ways that may have fortified it
(Pereira, 2015). According to me, Specifically, British business interests encircled strong
relationship with the Indian high social orders, which subsequently empowered them to abuse the
lower classes and even toll them as contracted work all through the British Commonwealth.
While Britain indicated cajole while overseeing India, with Australia, they used each opportunity
to rebuke Convicts and after that informed their social relatives that they were morally and
physically decay because of their inheritance. The result was an overall population that came to
scorn class divisions and ended up known for its populism.
The differences I found according to my hobby, culture and national conditions
Population 1,220,800,359 (July 2013 est.) 22,262,501 (July 2013 est.)
Total national output per capita ($US) $4,000 (2013 est.) $43,000 (2013 est.)
Totalonal output - piece by part:
cultivation: 16.9%
industry: 17%
organizations: 66.1% (2013 est.)
cultivation: 3.8%
industry: 27.4%
organizations: 68.7% (2013 est.)
Open debt 51.8% of GDP (2013 est.) 32.6% of GDP (2013 est.)
Racial groups Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% White 92%, Asian
7%, Aboriginal and other 1%
History
I have also analysed the comparison of cultures though understanding of historical values such
as Australia theory of human advancement recommends that anatomically current individuals
would have accomplished India 73-55,000 years back; regardless, the soonest demonstrate
revealed to date is simply around 30,000 years earlier (Gupta, 2016). (Affirmation of Homo
erectus in India has been found to backpedal 300,000 years and a couple of theories of
progression propose Homo erectus formed into Homo sapiens.)
Clasp works of art at the Bhimbetka shake covers record the distinctive changes in Indian
culture. Portrayals from Paleolithic time 10,000 + years earlier have animals as the principle
subject, which is really average of searcher gatherer social requests (). Human figures start
appearing in the Mesolithic time 5,000 to 10,000 years back when agribusiness was

acknowledged to have started in India; regardless, the figures show pursuing anafricqd don't have
the dynamic signs of status customarily found in country social requests. Canvases from the
Neolithic time frame in the region of 4,500 and 2,000 BC depict contact with provincial social
affairs.
Bhimbetka shake craftsmanship
Bhimbetka give in painting showing pursuing and an expect that is in every way riding a stallion.
It shows an overall population progressing with the subduing of animals beginning and a more
noticeable usage of human figures in craftsmanship.
Around 1500BC, Aryan factions moved into the Indian subcontinent from Iran and Russia and
mixed with the before Dravidians (Sandall, 2018). The Aryans wound up overpowering in the
north while the Dravidians remained winning in the south. Together the two social events offered
rise to Hinduism and India's iron age.
In the third century BC, Ashoka broadened the Mauryan domain into what is right now
Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Ensuing to vanquishing all before him, Ashoka surrendered his
overlord calling to wind up a Buddhist. He passed on oversee to his kids, which soon achieved
the area breaking isolated.
The Gupta Dynasty from the fourth and 6th several years AD is generally thought to be India's
Golden age. In the midst of the organization, Indian mathematicians envisioned zero and base ten
numerals (). Moreover, analysts conjectured the theory that the earth surrounded the sun and that
the earth was round. In articulations of the human experience, the sexual manual The Karma
Suta was made and outlined. After the line fell, India came back to a movement of little
kingdoms controlled openly with their own specific unmistakable culture.
In the tenth and eleventh several years, Islamic Turks and Afghanis assaulted to set up the Delhi
Sultanate in northern India (Appadurai, 2015). The Sultanate bombarded in tries to join the north
and south; in any case, it opposed the Mongolian assault that vanquished China and
accomplished the separation to western Europe. Different lines dealt with the sultanate until the
point that it was pulverized by gatecrashers from cutting edge Uzbekistan, who by then
proceeded to vanquish most of India and set up the Mughal line that ruled for more than three
centuries.
In the eighteenth century, the British East India association developed trading stations in India's
waterfront towns. Its control of the seas, development and administrative conviction framework
showed appealing to India's top of the line. At to start with, the association out-moved other
European interests. By then, with its own particular private military included Indian subjects, the
association began appending India for itself. By the 1820s, most of India was under its control.
The association was later nationalized by the British government, thusly bringing India under
British control (Appadurai, 2015). I have witnessed that as rulers, Britain united an India that
had ended up being august states doing combating each other (or the Mughal rulers). It by then
proceeded to produce the world's greatest arrangement of railways, introduced a postal system,
displayed a central direction structure, exhibited the Westminster plan of law and introduced
control. In the mid twentieth century, quietness security from British represent was driven by
Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. This additional to Britain yielding India flexibility in

1947 and besides Britain allocating the subcontinent into Hindu overpowered India and Muslim
ruled Pakistan.
The as of late liberated nations picked that the best way to deal with use their chance was to go to
war with each other (Lomax, 2017). In 1971, these wars achieved east Pakistan articulating self-
sufficiency to twist up Bangladesh. Continuing with opposing vibe over the wars provoked India
testing nuclear weapons in a show of energy, which in this way prompted Pakistan to develop its
own one of a kind nuclear weapon.
While India's pre-history is in relative similitude with regular theories of human
advancement, Australia's pre-history flips around it. One of the guideline spanners in advance are
the Bradshaw (Gwion) creations, which are scattered in around 100 000 goals spread in excess of
50 000 sq. km of northern Australia. The workmanship's shade can't be dated, however a
fossilized wasp settle covering one of the canvases has been dated at 17,000 + years old. This
places the craftsmanship in the Paleolithic time when the general population should have been
searcher gatherers; in any case, the workmanship shows the characteristics of a cultivating
society (Ralston, 2016). As per my view and comparison, are individuals the basic subject, and
additionally tufts, hair embellishments, and maybe clothing seem to show a people who have
developed the status orders related with green social requests. The fundamental real ace on the
Bradshaw craftsmanship was the late Graham Walsh, who chronicled and mulled over the
workmanship for over 40 years. The mix of the photographs themselves and the oral history of
the area families drove Walsh to assume that they were painted by a dark Asiatic race before the
last ice age. Walsh in like manner contemplated that there were a sort of iconography (picture
forming).

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