1. Bollywood.

Bollywood is a popular industry film in Bombay. This movies have a particularity, that is the costumes that are colorfull, the dances and music. This industry starts in 1899. Dadasaheb Phalke is considered the father of Indian cinema since he was the first one to make a full-length movie in 1913. In it, both male and female characters were played by men. His movie inspired many people who soon started making films or working in movie production. By the 1930’s 200 movies per year were produced in India.
The first Indian movies were inspired by ancient texts. Many of the movies’ plots were taking stories from ancient Indian poems, the Parsi theatre or the traditional folk theatre of India. Despite the difficulties that the country was facing in the 1950’s, that was the time when India’s most critically acclaimed movies were made. Also, India’s biggest movie stars were born in this period. The movies of those years represented all the problems and struggles that society was facing.

In the end of the 1950’s a new trend in Indian filmmaking was born. The new movies featured comedy, laughter and rock music, rather than dramatic scenes and sad songs. The movies were presenting new concepts- those of love, laughter and happiness. By the 1970’s and until the 1990’s Indian cinema went back to its previous role of recreating the sad and difficult everyday life of society.

In the 1990’s the industry went back to the romantic movies and comedies of the late 60’s.

2. Hinduism.

Is a polytheism religion originating on the indian subcontinent, is considererd one of the world’s oldest religions. It has aproximely 800 million of believers around the world. This religion has three principal gods (Brahma: the creator, Vishnu: the preserver and Shiva: the destroyer).

Principles.

• All human beings are divine
• Unity of existence through love
• Religious harmony
• Knowledge of 3 Gs: Ganga (sacred river), Gita (sacred script), Gayatri (sacred mantra)

Disciplines.

• Satya (Truth)
• Ahimsa (Non-violence)
• Brahmacharya (Celibacy, non-adultery)
• Asteya (No desire to possess or steal)
• Aparighara (Non-corrupt)
• Shaucha (Cleanliness)
• Santosh (Contentment)
• Swadhyaya (Reading of scriptures)
• Tapas (Austerity, perseverance, penance)
• Ishwarpranidhan (Regular prayers)

References.

https://www.justlanded.com/english/India/India-Guide/Culture/Bollywood

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/beliefs/intro_1.shtml

https://www.thoughtco.com/principles-and-disciplines-of-hinduism-1770057

According to Lewis, in India is predominant multiactive culture but this culture have some things in common with reactive culture. Multiactive culture is likely to be emotionals, talkative, loquacious, impulsive, impuntuctual, they don’t like to stop a conversation, they do a lot of things at time, they are flexible with their activities. Reactive culture are people respectfull, good listeners, patient, polite, they don’t like to interrupt to another person, they don’t like to do eyes conctact.

If a person from India comes to Barranquilla, Colombia, the cultural change is minimun based on this model of culture, because in India is predominant multiactive culture and here in Colombia the culture is multiactive too. But in India there are a little of reactive culture too, and in this case it could have some problems in both cultures, because reactive culture is very respectfull and have the impression that they are shy, they don’t greet in the same form that we do (that is usually with a hug or a kiss in the cheek) and in reactive culture they don’t lost face by in contrast in multiactive culture is common to gave a good excuse for don’t lose face.

This index helps to compare countries in many aspects like: power distance, individualism, masculinity vs femininity, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation, indulgence.

Colombia and India are two countries that have some similarities and differences. First, they are similar in power distance, because both have high scores in this index, this means that in both cultures the society are not equal, we can see a hierarchy in the structure of society, one example to describe this is in Colombia a person who is the manager of a company in general don’t talk with the employees, and the employees have a lot of respect to their bosses, something similar happens in India, there people respect the hierarchy. Secondly, other similarity in both cultures is that both countries have high levels in masculinity vs femininity index, this means that both countries are masculinity, both cultures are competitive and like the money and power; a way to ilustrate this is here in Colombia people prepare to have a good job and earn a lot of money and in India they have a similar concept. Finally, they are very different in indulgence, this index is how people control their desires and impulses. Colombia has a high score and India a low score, this means that Colombian people likes to enjoy life and having fun and Indian people have a tendency to cynicism and pessimism, for instance, people in India are close to express their desires. In conclusion, both cultures have a lot of things in common and other that are different.

What is concept of real wife in India?

Although increasing numbers of women seek and secure employment outside their homes, the concept of the ideal Indian wife remains someone who exhibits the nurturing qualities of a domestic caregiver while also embodying masculine agency and independence in the workplace. Moreover, even when women secure formal employment outside the home, they are often underpaid and are more anxious because of the perceived conflicts between their paid labor and their traditional roles as homemakers – Ramasubramanian, S., & Jain P. (2009) (as cited in Sanyal, Chatterjee, & Chatterjee, 2007).

How is the laboral reality in corporations for women?

In India there are 2 women managers for every 100 men managers. The differences in the way the two groups were rewarded were subtle, but they apparently signalled to men that they were valued for the long term and to women that they were not. – Basu, S. (2008).

What is the concept to find a spouse/husband?

The expected norm is that the definition of ideal female partners is in terms of reproductive health and physical attractiveness, while men are more likely to emphasize their financial security and social status.
Ramasubramanian, S., & Jain, P. (2009)

Comparision between Colombian culture and Indian culture.

In both cultures there are some similarities about gender, for example, in both cultures is common that women are the part who stay at home, raise the children and clean the house, even though they have other employment. And other similarity about gender in both counties is women clothes, in both cultures is criticized if women use clothes that make her see her physical attributes.

References

Basu, S. (2008). Gender Stereotypes in Corporate India : A Glimpse. New Delhi: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Ramasubramanian, S., & Jain, P. (2009). Gender stereotypes and normative heterosexuality in matrimonial ads from globalizing India. Asian Journal of Communication, 19(3), 253–269. https://ezproxy.uninorte.edu.co:2093/10.1080/01292980903072831

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Stereotypes in Indian culture.

Here in colombia are differents points of view about other cultures. For example in india there are some views that could become stereotypes:

1. People in india are poor.
2. People in India are dirty.
3. People in India are male chauvinism.
4. People in India don’t know how to speak english well.
5. People in India are polytheim.
6. People in India are disorganize.

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Here in colombia we see a lot of things about other countries and cultures and in some cases these things give us bad ideas about that culture. For example, in India we used to see on television or internet that they are poor people, they are dirty people, there are a lot of people, is common that people in india have mutations and other things that couldn’t be true but we still thinking that these things are true.

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