Comparison and reflection

Comparison

1. What are the similarities and differences?

The Indian younger generation tends to eat less healthy than the older generation. In our conclusion,
we found out the opposite. Our younger generation eats slightly healthier than the older one. All the
older generations in both India and the Netherlands played a reasonable amount of sports, mainly at
school. Of course, the two sides ate very different meals, and the Indian interviewees ate at a later
time than the Dutch. Neither of the older generations discussed mental health at school, and there
are mixed opinions on whether it is an important topic or not.

2. What have you learned about the differences in health in Europe and in India?

a. When your grandparents were teenagers.

In the report of India, you see that they all lived very healthy and had very big families. Then in our
report they were doing some more stuff themselves. So different things were relevant at that time in
India and Europe. So, in India they cared a lot about their big Family and ate together healthy. In
Europe they did that too, but it was less important, and they were very independent, while in India
that helped each other out a lot more.

b. When your parents were teenagers.

All the Indian parents got their food off their local grocery store. School actually made sure they ate
healthy and go outside often. Some parents said that the health compared to now and then was way
better, the particular reason for this is the fast and junk food wasn't invented yet. The Dutch parents
actually were the opposite, they especially ate low-calorie food, which is why most of the parents
were skinny. So, to summarize the Indian parents were healthy in their younger years, and later got
less healthy, because of all the junk food. The Dutch parents were skinny and didn't ate the
minimum a teenager should eat, and later when they were adults started eating healthier.

The Indian parents and the Dutch parents have one thing in common. Mental health wasn't
discussed by either of them. Because it was not important back then, and it wasn't really a thing and
there was no social media.

c. Now that you are a teenager.

The lives of the Dutch and Indian teenagers are quite alike. Both mostly buy their food at the
supermarket or grocery store, and they all play a certain sport. The Indian students value physical
health and education a bit more than the Dutch students, but both think it is at least a bit important.

Reflection

[individual]

Victoria:

1. What went well?

We finished all the assignments and interviewed enough parents and grandparents to write a good
report. The Indian students were always quick at responding and we were able to contact them
when we had questions/problems. We learned a lot about the life in India and how it was different
with each generation. We were able to compare the lives here and there well and there was no
trouble uploading it to our Weebly.

2. What would you have done differently

There were some issues in contacting each other and uploading the assignments to our Weebly on
time. We had a bit of trouble understanding the Indian students during the zoom calls but made up
for it by contacting each other via WhatsApp.

Gianluca:

1. What went well?

We have successfully finished all the assignments. I got contact with an Indian boy, we asked each
other questions and had a Zoom meeting. It went well, and I asked the questions first on Whatsapp,
and he answered. A couple days later we had our conversation in a Zoom meeting, and I took the
screenshot for the ‘evidence of communication’. It was a nice meeting, and we had a nice
conversation with each other.

2. What would you have done differently?

I would have got more contact with my person and talked a bit more in the meeting. That way we
could get to know more about each other's lives and could get more insight in the life of an Indian
teenager. I could also have asked more questions, but maybe that would then have got too much.

Jonah:

1. What went well?

We have finished all the assignments our teachers gave us. Not all of us were doing something, for
instance we had some problems with two students, eventually they did their job, and did their part.
That certainly caused a bit panic and stress. There also was a problem with the communication with
India, I took me a while to contact my person. But when we made contact, it went well.

2. What would I have done differently?

I wish we hadn’t problems with contact, and miscommunication with India. So I probably would try
to better communicate, for instance me and my partner planned an individual zoom meeting, I was
waiting for almost half an hour, and he didn’t answer or join the meeting, apparently, he meant a
few hours earlier.

Noor:

1. What went well?

In the first meeting with India, it was really fun, and we were able to ask some questions. Then the
communication in the group App was also going smoothly and we all had an individual meeting. The
people from India were all very nice and I’m sad that we can’t go there.

2. What would I have done differently?

We weren’t really well prepared for the meeting, and I hope we can improve that. Also, we had
some trouble with dividing the work and some people did more than others. So, for the next time, I
would make a better planning.

Diede:

1. What went well?

The first meeting with India was fun and it was nice to get to know them via a call instead of
WhatsApp. The communication in the group chat went smoothly and my partner was very nice
during our individual meeting.

2. What would I have done differently?

I had some miscommunications with people, which caused a bit of stress for everyone, and I should
definitely start earlier with tasks next time.