Family Life
Most wedding are arranged base on social class. For a Hindu family, extended family and kinship ties are highly suggested. They also highly prefer tradition gender role preferences. Traditionally, ideal and desired family in India is the joint family. A joint means family with three to four living generations, including uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, and grandparents living together in the same household. They would eat the foods cooked from the same hearth and worship the same idols. In India, it is desired to have male child. Due to this, male children have more privileges and more respect. Male children are raised to be assertive, less tolerant, independent, demanding. On the other hand, females are raised to be self-sacrificing, nurturing, adaptive, tolerant, and religious, and to value family above all. The elderly are generally obeyed and considered to have wisdom, and they are treated with respect and dignity by family and community members. the elderly care for their grandchildren and assist with cooking and household chores. Even adult children continue to consult their parents on most of the important aspects of life. |
Education
There is four levels: lower primary (age 6 to 10), upper primary (11 and 12), high (13 to 15) and higher secondary (17 and 18). The lower primary school is divided into five grades, upper primary school has two, high school has three and higher secondary has two. Students have to learn a common curriculum (but changes in different regions with mother tongue) till the end of high school, like in the US. There is some amount of specialization possible at the higher secondary level. Students throughout the country have to learn three languages (mainly, English, Hindi and their mother tongue) unless Hindi is their mother tongue language. India is very populated and so is the poverty. This result many of students with little to no education level. |