Claudia Heye #1

Hi all. My name is Claudia Heye. I am a senior, with a math and psychology degree. I am looking forwards to traveling to India. I have traveled outside of the country but only to Europe. I am excited to learn about another culture. I want to see how they live. Each time I travel to another country I look for things in their culture that I feel is better than the US. When I come back I try to integrate that into my life, a collection of the best parts of all cultures. I can’t wait to learn about another culture.
Here is part of my paper on awareness and India culture:

“India’s diverse population is the cause of its high humane orientation culture. Populations that are diverse either promote tolerance or there is turmoil. As a high humane orientation culture India is very tolerant of religious and language differences. Historically India has discriminated against women (Budhwar, Saini, Bhatnagar, 2005) and certain castes. However this is changing in India. They have one of most aggressive affirmative action policies, that helps to reverse caste discrimination (Tharoor). There are programs that are being implemented in India to help women become more independent and equal to men.

India has a high power distance, however as a culture there is work being done to change this. The population of businessmen is growing, and becoming richer. This growth in income is not reflected in the poor. Philanthropist and now the Indian government are taking steps to help shrink the gap between the rich and the poor.”