Your Attitude Sucks!
I still vividly remember this statement “Your Attitude Sucks!” which was announced to the students of our college. It was the vocal chords of a visiting professor which uttered this after witnessing an array of presentations. I am not going to salvage some pride by negating the statement; we have heard this from enumerous number of teachers, only that they had the courtesy to change the semantics and tone during other occasions. It’s natural that teachers expect more from us and we never want to disappoint them by giving them any quantum of surprise.
We had to slog ourselves to get into a good college and all we did henceforth was to present a turncoat after that. We were assiduous and talented on a local individual level but somehow choose to avert high levels of enthusiasm on a global group level. Could be that every individual concedes to the "collective freewill" of the group. We were suddenly adhering ourselves to the "group behavior", as usual there were exceptions here and there.
I could somehow recollect a conversation which I had with my friend about the difference in attitude between North Indians and South Indians. North Indians are generally the happy go type, broad minded and live their life enjoying moments in the present. South Indians are conservative, they live their life as if their lives are going to start after 40.They are more concerned about savings to make a great life in the prime of forties.
What could be the plausible reason for such a starching difference in life styles? One of my South Indian friends who had spent most of his time in North India dissected it for me.History reveals us one thing for us, it was North India which was most affected, be it Invasion by warriors for centuries now or the partition which happened recently. They have been tormented by more pain, their living was more uncertain than the bunch of people who spread the southern part. That’s what inculcated the culture of living their life to the moment than wait for some fine day far from the present.
There was yet another observation made by another friend, people in North India somehow tend to somehow identify people by their religion. There is a latent feeling of hurt tracing back to the Islamic invasion. The culture of people is more driven by the experiences of the past.
Have you ever wondered why Australians are so competitive? Japanese are hard working?, Americans mean business when its business?, Marwari's value money so much?, Jewish are powerful?. All have different stories to their chemistry.
Isn't it fair on us to give and get good experiences?
We had to slog ourselves to get into a good college and all we did henceforth was to present a turncoat after that. We were assiduous and talented on a local individual level but somehow choose to avert high levels of enthusiasm on a global group level. Could be that every individual concedes to the "collective freewill" of the group. We were suddenly adhering ourselves to the "group behavior", as usual there were exceptions here and there.
I could somehow recollect a conversation which I had with my friend about the difference in attitude between North Indians and South Indians. North Indians are generally the happy go type, broad minded and live their life enjoying moments in the present. South Indians are conservative, they live their life as if their lives are going to start after 40.They are more concerned about savings to make a great life in the prime of forties.
What could be the plausible reason for such a starching difference in life styles? One of my South Indian friends who had spent most of his time in North India dissected it for me.History reveals us one thing for us, it was North India which was most affected, be it Invasion by warriors for centuries now or the partition which happened recently. They have been tormented by more pain, their living was more uncertain than the bunch of people who spread the southern part. That’s what inculcated the culture of living their life to the moment than wait for some fine day far from the present.
There was yet another observation made by another friend, people in North India somehow tend to somehow identify people by their religion. There is a latent feeling of hurt tracing back to the Islamic invasion. The culture of people is more driven by the experiences of the past.
Have you ever wondered why Australians are so competitive? Japanese are hard working?, Americans mean business when its business?, Marwari's value money so much?, Jewish are powerful?. All have different stories to their chemistry.
Isn't it fair on us to give and get good experiences?
The same professor also said:
"You are in Deep Shit'
I'm tempted to compare...I have not heard anything close to those lines from my professors here, with the exception of a specific professor who is from South Asia. I wonder if its not just the students!
I also find working in groups here. The collective freewill is also known as public goods in economics, which leads to market failures (for instance, atmosphere is a public good, which is both non-rival and non-exclusive and so we really don't care about polluting the atmosphere)
Posted by
Santhosh |
11:31 am
santhosh I really admire your memory and thanks for quoting it.
Its true santhosh we take things which don't have a big say in our lives for granted.
Thats why we gonna are going to face the consequences for it.we shall be remainded that we shall not disrupt the equilibrium in the system
Posted by
Sara |
11:01 pm