It is often quoted that Indian education system is lot different from what the western countries in particular USA have in offering. Many people do say that latter one is definitely better as USA 's few universities combined produce more researches than whole of India. Such comments make students like me to think that conditions would be a lot better in every respect, had you done your engineering from some American university. But on seeing Howard of Big bang series , you'll definitely end up concluding that there are few things which can never change and are definitely attached with Engineering degree itself. I remember in one of the episodes, one of the competitor of howards says about engineer fraternity - "we all are creepy and can't get girls that's why we fight robots". Well I can say that many in Indian engineering fraternity won't agree with the creepy part (which might be hypocritical in some cases) but would definitely agree with the latter. And this is not restricted to one college but to all.
My views might be biased as I have interacted with students of very few engineering college, when compared to the total number that India has, but I believe that if their traits could be assumed to be representative of their college mates, than I could safely generalize this thing over a sizable number and can say that most engineering students in our country are the lesser aggressive version of howard wolowitz. Well the lack of aggression too is bought upon by the cultural setup of India, and once these dudes go in a no string attached places i.e. some western country then they become equally aggressive. When someone comes back from a foreign internship, this question definitely creeps in - Wahan kya kya kiya (what all things did you do), and certainly no one is interested in what you did on internship or project rather what you did on the other front. And most of these foreign returned dudes have accomplished a lot of things on "other" front, the first front is irrelevant for the listening masses. Only those who are left behind, were either too cautious of the money that goes into such entertainments or had some distant fear that their activity report can reach somehow back at their homes as digital gadgets have made it a lot easier these days. Morality being the reason is very rare to come across. So given the American settings, if not all most would have been like howard wolowitz.
(From now on I will try to keep my posts small so that it is not discarded merely on the basis of its length by the reader)
3 comments:
nice observation, its just becoz of the numbers..........
naah... dude... not engineering, its gotta do with what your beliefs, confidence and upbringing has been be it engineering or medicine or arts
@anonymous.soul: I think in this case, the behaviour is bred by scarcity (which engineering offers) and upbringing has hardly a role to play
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