“The Challenges of Cultural Differences in the Workplace with Indian Colleagues”

Well, in terms of people (personally) I get along very well with them. Less so in terms of social division. I work with them a lot and the things I mention are just things my Indian colleagues do yourself about complaining. I especially experienced those closet dramas in practice. I think there is also some irritation about that because we have always had problems with our teams because the people who are the best often grow quickly. If they don’t get that chance, they’re gone. Logical, but of course completely shit for our quality. From what I see, the young people themselves are completely done with it. I also thought it was brave of my colleague to just marry that boy from the other caste. The problem is that the established order is still in control.

And that of that colleague (also a friend of mine) getting married was really horrible for her. But it was more intended to indicate how different it is there than here. You don’t really have a carefree student life with lots of parties there. Things like going out, drinking, etc., women in particular must also keep secret from their parents. But good point, I’ll delete it because it’s not really on topic.

You also see that the younger generation is much more open. It’s the elders there who block things. Most young people in modern cities like Bangalore are very modern, but they come from villages where their parents are still very much in the old traditions. They themselves are completely between two stools. In the end, if the young people eventually get into key positions themselves, things will certainly turn out well.

Anyway I wanted to explain what @jongentje said a little more and substantiate why that is sometimes the case. Of course I’m talking about society and not individuals, of course you have excellent people there and because there are just so many people there, there are also a lot of good ones.

And I’m not just criticizing, I also think that for example ‘bad english’ as ​​I saw someone quoted elsewhere in this thread is not a thing there. I have not encountered a single colleague whose English was not top notch. An accent of course, but we Dutch people have that too. Stonecoaling English and stuff.

Only expressions are sometimes different and are not recognized. One time something went wrong at work and a project got postponed and I said “Oh that’s a shame” and my colleague thought I was blaming her and felt she should be ashamed or something When it really just means ‘sorry’. Anyway, explained and provided some links to urban dictionary and it was good again. But those are normal cultural things that have no effect on the job.

[Reactie gewijzigd door GekkePrutser op 20 mei 2023 03:13]