Culture

     Going along with what we are reading, I decided to blog about the culture of India. With over 1 billion people living in the country, its key trait of the country is that there are so many diverse and different cultures. 

     India has around 216 different official languages, but with regional dialects, the country contains more than 1000 different languages. Going along with the hundreds of languages, it also contains one the most religiously diverse countries in the entire world; Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Muslim, etc. But of course the majority of Indian people, 827 million people, are Hindu. Just like Nectar in a Sieve, arranged marriages are still quite prolific and the divorce rate is  about 1.1%, quite a bit lower compared to the US's 50%. All arranged marriages are scrutinized and perfected based on the caste to which the people are in, height, weight, age, and many other determining factors in the modern age.

"Wikipedia.com". Wikipedia. February 8th,2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/culture_of_india