India can’t rival China’s productivity: its culture is too different.
( dad was of India, but Anglo-Indian/British. I’ve more understanding of India’s culture because family talked about it, than most North Americans, but never lived there )
I’ve been told that India is the ONLY country in the world, where bribery is normal to get the government-official to actually do their job, whereas normally it’s to get them to not do their job…
The caste-system’s entitlement conditioning, of the upper castes, compared with the abused-all-the-time lower-caste people…
that caste-system is itself the enemy of Indian competitiveness.
You can’t just stick makeup on some random animal & claim it’s actually some completely-different kind of animal…
The reactions, the instincts are different.
There are books on offshoring work, & the dangers of doing-so, with different cultures…
In Japan there is now a “loud American” job-position: the person there makes certain that the operation doesn’t keep quietly accommodating corrupt-management or wrong-strategy, until they’re sunk/dead: the loud American’s job is to speak what the conforming Japanese want said, but wouldn’t ever say, because they aren’t gaijin.
India’s famous for power-distance: inferiors won’t be tolerated to speak truth to superiors, ever.
That is produced by their caste system.
That isn’t competitive.
It’s deeply cultural.
Modi’s Hindutva India isn’t likely to lessen that, is it?
India can’t rival China’s productivity: its culture is too different.
( dad was of India, but Anglo-Indian/British. I’ve more understanding of India’s culture because family talked about it, than most North Americans, but never lived there )
I’ve been told that India is the ONLY country in the world, where bribery is normal to get the government-official to actually do their job, whereas normally it’s to get them to not do their job…
The caste-system’s entitlement conditioning, of the upper castes, compared with the abused-all-the-time lower-caste people…
that caste-system is itself the enemy of Indian competitiveness.
You can’t just stick makeup on some random animal & claim it’s actually some completely-different kind of animal…
The reactions, the instincts are different.
There are books on offshoring work, & the dangers of doing-so, with different cultures…
In Japan there is now a “loud American” job-position: the person there makes certain that the operation doesn’t keep quietly accommodating corrupt-management or wrong-strategy, until they’re sunk/dead: the loud American’s job is to speak what the conforming Japanese want said, but wouldn’t ever say, because they aren’t gaijin.
India’s famous for power-distance: inferiors won’t be tolerated to speak truth to superiors, ever.
That is produced by their caste system.
That isn’t competitive.
It’s deeply cultural.
Modi’s Hindutva India isn’t likely to lessen that, is it?
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