Commuter culture

‘Youngsters these days are getting influenced by the Western world’ said every generation ever. Familiar isn’t it?

But in an increasingly global village with multinational work spaces and progressive organizational structures, it is a no-brainer that one is required to be a global citizen. To be able to interact with multiple cultures, be recognized as one of them and pickup cultural nuances and references, it requires not just to study but also to ape the same. & understanding is very different from agreeing; so not mincing my words here; one needs to be able to grasp, process and acknowledge (not necessarily internalize).

However every generation in a developing nation tries to build its own future and thereby brings economic progress in the nation’s fabric by living a life of duality. Caught between the local and the global, the folk and the foreign, the day-job and post work life. They work furiously in the day adapting to western mannerisms, language and even dress up to play the part. While life after the day’s job is over is spent in comfort food, dressing and soaking up content in the local dialect. Thus the commuter culture which shifts gears effortlessly from what they grew up as kids and what the adult life has shaped them to consume. Those who adapt prevail better than those who don’t. So the next time a youngster brings a ‘western Point of view’ at work or otherwise, remember we all have been there done that!