Culture

-Essence of our social processes.
-Accepted by a large group of people.
-shared by many other and comes out as a behavioral aspects or generalization.
- the clutches of tradition not evolving
-External factors influencing internal values
- collective follow up with individual thinking

What we live is our culture than what we think
Traditional is history and not culture

1.GENDER
The first thing that strikes is the best companion of the world gender i.e gender discrimination, male dominated society. The cultural values as people hold in their society like set of task to be performed by women and men in particular. Even the basic most enjoyable task i.e shopping (the grocery shopping) is always a responsibility of a women and men if does that they are called girlish which again subconsciously by calling them girlish is not insulting men but women are related to such inferior task.

Decision making- authority which is always vested in the hands of male. Women don’t take decisions independently. They have to ask men for each and every decision. They have to depend on men
Women- deemed as property, thing considered as an object [EXAMPLE THE SONG: TU CHEEZ BADI HAI MAST]. protecting women from SEXUAL ABUSE IS DIFFERENT . WHY ARE THE NOT ALLOWED TO MOVE FREELY AT LATE NIGHT. THEY ARE MEN’S custody.
WOMEN-- commodification
What kind of man hits his wife?
What kind of women allows herself to be hit
On one hand giving her the custody but on the other hand not giving her the equality. Where custodianship involves freedom, equality, leadership, without which it is difficult to achieve the task of custodianship.

Women are multitaskers because men have continuously given them tasks rather than sharing them equally.
In this society there are specific gender roles for men and women in the society leading to discrimination. extraordinary responsibility of loyalty is there on women. 2.INDIAN FOOD GENERAL characteristics of Indian food * Spicy * Sweets * Regional * Oil * Ghee * Butter

Homemade: purity , fresh and not rotten vegetables, customized, hygiene. Mindset: homemade and outside food in context to butter. Outside people ask for butter chapatti and at home they eat oil chapatti. ORIGINAL: we are so steadfast when we hear the word original.

It evolves and not original depending on climate ; as the genetic and scientific physicality is also not original but it evolved and changed. What is culture? Constantly evolving awarteness about the rigid brackets. Cultural brackets that we need to know that nature and science is not with us in that bracketed strings. Indianising of foreign food: fusion indian +western, extraordinary talent of turning the food into their own way. We indianise , regionalisevit as Punjabi sabji will become sweet in gujarati family.as we have a habit of domesticizing the food. People are possessive about their tastes- Indians find very difficult to adjust in a tour to foreign countries. they just cannot change their taste buds. They carry their food along with themselves. Food items with strong festival orientation for example uttarayan-undhyu Delicacy of food item related to a particular religious value Wedding- marriage attending in Indians means food.sweets again have a very special place of its own

Politics of food: as gujarat’s border ia at its coastlines each community staying there eats sea food because it is free of cost. 40% gujaratis which are not at coastal don’t eat non veg Representation: patels NRIs represented themselves as gujarati at outside country eating only veg. People divide each other in the name of food. hindu/ muslims

Food not only uniting but also dividing cultural features.

Conclusion. Indian culture is so much about exclusivity. -Non veg-veg -poor caste we exclude and we think that we are higher than them. One should promote inclusivity. Don’t put full stop make it a comma and keep asking questions why does it happen .. ( why does it happen in our family? Why this culture? SENSE OF INCLUSIVITY AND QUESTIONING THE SET NOTION IS AN URGENT NEED.HENCE THINK THAT CULTURE DOESNOT EXIST ; WHAT EXISTS IS BLIND FOLD OF POLITICAL POWER. IN THE MOVIE OMG ITS RIGHTY SAID THAT IT MAKES A PERSON EITHER TERRORIST OR HELPLESS. (BEBAS YAA LACHAAR)