How is Indian culture different from American culture?

One of the most interesting differences I’ve noticed between American and Indian cultures is that American culture often centers the family on the immediate family: parents and children. Indian culture, on the other hand, extends that to the grandparents and sometimes aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.

This leads to an interesting dilemma for the American family: who does the mother leave her children with when they don’t get a lot of time around extended family? Whether it’s extended family or a daycare, the child will scream and cry for mother at least the first week when left without her.

This doesn’t happen in India. In India, when a parent needs a babysitter, they turn to the extended family because the children get more time with the extended family.