I have been to US and UK and you would be surprised to know that family values are much more stronger than in India. We tend to look at things from a perpective that suits us so when we say that people in west put their parents in old age homes we do not know that in most of the cases parents actually prefer to live in old age homes, becasuse of the facilities available.
Speaking about culture i think the basic culture of honesty, sincerity and civic sense counts much more than reams of literature philosophy written and dance and poetry. We fare very poor on this.
Bravery of New Yorkers was no less when they were able to put behind 9/11 episode. Europe was nothing but rubble at the end of world, look what they are now.
Being in a job where we design services for building in UK/US i am struck by the details they go in and the pain they take to do a perfect job, while we have a 'chalta hai' attitude in us that pervades every walk of life.
Let us not revel in abstract and past but be practical and live in present. We are nowhere near the west, nor can we ever hope of if our whole attitude does not change.
