ai came to united states in january 2016 and these are some of the cultural differences i came across when i first came to united states from india hi guys welcome back to my channel in today's video i will share 5 cultural differences that i faced when i came to united states now to give you a little introduction my name is freya single i came here in 2016 after getting married to my husband my husband was a PhD student at that time and i came here on a dependent F2 visa so the first shock that you get after landing in united states is the expenses when you land here you get the money from every thing you get from the dollar then you get the money from them and our Indian mentality is that we convert it into Indian currency and we multiply it by 70 to 80 and that we are in our budget or not suppose we go to super market and buy a bunch of money from them which is the dollar we multiply it by 70 to 80 and we think oh my god one bunch of money is getting the money from 70 to 80 which we get from india to 5 to 10 so expenses is one thing that creates a huge difference between india and united states but i would say if you come here on a student visa you come to college or you come to work visa then hold on to that situation because your salary is also very high compared to india so eventually your salary and your expenses they will go hand in hand the second major difference you get is the same dependency in united states here the man power is very high unlike in india you can't afford house helpers so all the household work you do you have to clean the house, you have to pay the rent you have to clean the toilet you have to refill the gas station with your car you have to refill the gas station with your car because the man power is very expensive and this country teaches you to be self dependent when i was here i was all dependent on my parents earlier and when i was here i was not able to cook anything but eventually this country teaches you to be self dependent to be self confident about all the things so slowly when i was here i learnt to clean the house and when you learn to do your work then this country teaches me this third major cultural difference you will feel between india and united states is the respect for self and others work here every person who works they enjoy it and they are very proud of what they do no matter if someone works in a supermarket or someone works in a gas station or someone works in a lab or a doctor everyone respect their own work and others work too so you will not understand the small or big thing because people here are mentality and there is no small or big thing i will tell you my life take experience when i am telling people that i am a full time mom i am living in my house and i am doing nothing i am just having fun staying at home i am not doing any job i am not doing any job so i am not doing anything in their eyes but at the same time when i tell people that i am a full time mom right now i am just at home taking care of my baby so here everyone says that it is more than a full time job you are taking care of your baby you are so lucky that you can take out time to take care of your baby and here is a very normal concept here ladies if you take off work, break or take off your baby then you will get a lot of good positive environment you will not understand any small or big thing you will get a lot of progressive thinking and you will get a lot of support 4th major cultural difference between india and united states is the helping attitude of people if you go anywhere in india you will get a lot of help you will get a lot of help especially if you talk about government offices you will always say that this document is less you will get a lot of help you will get a lot of work if you take an example of an SBI bank you will not be able to spend time with your baby this is my personal experience i have opened my account in SBI bank it took me around 15 days and i will keep going every day sometimes i will give less documents sometimes i will give less documents sometimes i will get a lot of time my work was in 15 days whereas if you see here people are very helping they are always ready to help you out they are happy to take you out from your difficult situation if you take a small example when you go to the supermarket you will not get a lot of money if you are not getting a lot of money you will call the associate so the associate will not tell you if you are okay you will get your time in the i-lummer ad he will go there with you he will tell you if you are not getting a lot of money is this the thing you wanted to buy and you will make sure you are fully satisfied you will give options and then he will leave this is the difference in the attitude of people in the people in the whole attitude of people if you are not going to help people then you will think if you see here people are very helping the major difference is that in the United States there is one privacy people will take care of your privacy and respect your privacy if you are in your personal life and your professional life you will never try to intrude you will always keep your barriers between your work and your personal life between the things that you want to share with the public and the things that you want to keep it private here is a very private privacy unlike in India where people come to know their things they ask you they try to invade your private life and there is no such thing so this is the difference the difference that I have felt after coming to the United States my experiences are very positive but I want to know your experiences so you must definitely tell me in the comment section I think it's not about the country it's about the country man what we think we do, we become culture so we always have to be supportive we should be progressive and respectful we should be respectful so till today's video I hope you will like it see you in the next video take 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