Hofstede Analysis

The film PK was a satire comedy that showed some of the sterotypes in Indian society as well as realities that people living in Indian culture are dealing with. while at the same time being able to reach an American audience with some of the questions the film asked and envoked a deeper reflection. India has a different culture than what you would find in the United States, if you looked purely at Hofstede’s scores, upon watching the movie which was a satire and outside research while the two are very different they still have some interesting similarties. Occasionaly, India and the United States have some common behaviors in Hofstede’s Cultural Taxonomy and sometimes they are the complete opposite of each other.
The first of Hofstede’s Cultural …show more content…
It ranges from long-term to short- term (Lustig and Koester).” The United States has postitive and negative views of what is bad and good with clear laws, and has a much more short-term outlook when it comes to time. In India they focus more on the long-term orientation. They are not focused on what is going to happen right now but what is meant to happen will happen. Where both karma and the firm belief that you are destined to do things comes into play in Indian culture. In PK, an example of long-term orientation is Tapasvi telling the man whose wife is paralyzed to go on the long journey, which is not uncommon, and the man was agreeing and probably would have done it if Pk had not started to say something. Here this man’s wife was not going to get an instant cure but something that would happen much …show more content…
After watching the film just three of the cultural things I took away were in India people believe in things and they believe whole-heartledy whether rolling down the street or giving money to temples, people seem to care more, where in the United States the rate of people going to church is going down and while many people saw they are religious they do nothing to show that devoation, this made me step back and realize I need to be doing more. The second thing I took away is America is not alone in sterotypse and discrimination in film religious groups discriminated against religious groups and people from different locations just because an elder in the community said so. This was beneficial to me because it help bridge similarities and show that India and the United States are not just numbers and are more similar than they may seem. The last thing I took away from the movie is how there is such much poverty and death but like Pk pointed out higher up religious people who take money could be doing something about it, or how people pour milk in respect to the good when they could be feeding the hungry. Again I saw another bridge between the United States and India, neglecting human beings in the name of a god is accepted and people almost always turn a blind eye. Which leaves me with my last point, when Pk made the statement about