(ii) Open and Welcoming Culture
Today there is a reawakening and a paradigm change taking place – in fact a revolution taking place in global competition. It is not new. The evolutionary migrations in and out of India, Africa, and the Middle East to Europe, Mongolia and other places got the traveling and seeking process underway that continues today. The world is one home and one family philosophy is the foundation on which Indian culture is based.
We can find numerous examples of explorers, sailors and conquering individuals and groups doing better by acquiring and using more and newer lands, people, resources, ideas, technologies than stationary societies. All ancient civilizations and colonial empires are testament to this characteristic. The British Empire and the American successes are only recent examples in this process.
Both as a recipient of migration from Africa and onward forwarder of migrants from India to the north in all of Europe India has used its open and welcoming culture throughout its history. IN-migration of people and ideas has created a modern multicultural India while some 30 million plus Indians are estimated to be spread out around the globe where they have acquired the reputation of a friendly and welcoming community.
Travelers to India have always admired the open, friendly and welcoming nature of Indians who are always excited to share their most inner thoughts, resources and homes with the visitor treating the guest as a most welcome godly presence. Thus the open and welcoming characteristic has sustained India and its culture through millenniums. It will be significant in India's future role in a globalizing human family.
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