Indian Student Gives His Impression of America in Blog Post
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Aniruddh Chaturvedi, an Indian student studying at Carnegie Mellon and interning at a tech company in California, gave his views on American culture after spending two years here. Some of the highlights:
- **The retail experience is nowhere near as fun/nice as it is in India. Because labor is cheap in India, there is always someone who will act as a “personal shopper” to assist you with holding your clothes, giving suggestions, etc. In America, on the other hand, even if you go to a Nordstrom or Bloomingdales, there is almost nobody to help you out while you’re shopping. Shopping in America is more of a commodity / chore than it is a pleasurable activity
- **Rich people are thin/ well maintained, poor people are fat. This stems from the fact that cheap food is fatty, rich people don’t eat cheap food — they tend to eat either home-cooked food which is expensive or eat at expensive / healthy places. Unfortunately, it is expensive to be healthy in America.
- **Fat people are not respected much in society. Being fat often has the same connotations as being irresponsible towards your body. If you’re thin (and tall, but not as much), people will respect you a lot more and treat you better. You will also receive better customer service if you’re well maintained. This extends my previous point which mentioned that if you’re thin, you’re statistically likely to be rich.
- **Smoking weed is seen the same as smoking cigarettes.
- **Split families, not having married parents, etc is not seen differently than the contrary.
- **Girls are not very promiscuous, contrary to most Hollywood films
Follow the link to business insider to read the rest of his observations. That’s if you want to take advice from an Indian guy who smokes weed all day long and couldn’t get laid for two years.
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