When you think about the emerging American culture , what comes to mind ? Driven by technology and work ethic ? Focus on mindfulness , meditation , and yoga ? International foods using exotic spices to awaken the senses ? Vibrant colors and Bollywood ?
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How Has India ’ s RICH CULTURE
Enriched U . S . Culture ?
When you think about the emerging American culture , what comes to mind ? Driven by technology and work ethic ? Focus on mindfulness , meditation , and yoga ? International foods using exotic spices to awaken the senses ? Vibrant colors and Bollywood ?
Driven by Technology and Work Ethic
Historically and culturally , the Indian culture is focused on science , technology and a strict work ethic . On www . stephen-knapp . com / indian _ contributions _ to _ american _ progress . htm , Stephen Knapp highlights examples of Indian contributions to American and global progress such as :
• Co-founder of Sun Microsystems is Vinod Khosla and the founder had an Indian Professor in Computer Technologies at Louisiana State University .
• Vinod Dham created the well-known Pentium chip which is used to run computers .
• Sabeer Bhatia was the founder and creator of Hotmail .
• “ Algebra , trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century .”
• “ The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana , and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem .”
• Chess was invented in India .
30 iF Magazine | February 2017