Today morning i went to an indian store to buy chicken for lunch. One of my ex-colleague called me for a friendly chat. Since i'm in indian store, the context was set as business and india, he told me that recently he visited a suburb where 70% of business owned by a particular people from an indian state. I said yes their main core is business, but we (both of us from south india) are good for project oriented jobs. Is it stereotyping or assumptions?
As per architecture point of view, stereotypes and assumptions are really important to understand/build a new system but with in human systems based on stereotypes and assumptions "forcing" is wrong. My opinion is, a little stereotype, common sense and general knowledge is really required to understand a stranger and to build a good relationship or persuade others. The 3 combination of stereotype, common sense and general knowledge are success weapon to deal with most diversified cultures like india.
For example, couple of weeks ago my wife with couple of other housewives planned to contact a get together. One is from east india, other one is from west india(we haven't meet them earlier). My wife came from prominently beef eating state based on that she suggested a beef dish. She lacked to apply stereotype, common sense and general knowledge here, because i knew western india states banned beef slaughtering , and most of them are sensitive to hindu culture in which eating beef is sin and a simple stereotype that their last name belongs to veg. only community. I was upset with her and i felt some uneasy when we went there for dinner ofcourse with pure veg. dishes.
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