On 27 June 2012 09:17, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder where we Indians stand in the spectrum of spoiledness? I know > my father was much easier on me that his father was on him. I'm a lot > easier on my kids than my father was on me. > > On the other hand, this article seems to think that anecdotal data is > sufficient to draw generalizations on -- so I'm a little skeptical. > > -- b >
My pet theory here is that the more developed a society is, the lesser the social interactions with a broader age group. It is obviously a generalization, as I've only lived in the US and India but I can say that the 4 years I spent in the US, I met and interacted with far fewer people outside my age group than I did when I was in India. Perhaps this is true only for immigrants as the extended family is not present (though in the small university town I lived in, Indians congregated with no regard to language or religion), but I'm pretty sure it applies to all kids in the US. The obvious contradiction to this theory is that in the past decades, more people in the US have opted to stay in their home town whereas India its quite the opposite. Perhaps we'll see kids as mean to each other and other age groups that was on display in the Karen Klien video in big urban centers in India soon. Kiran
