How were the alternative movements in America and India similar and different?

Answer 1

I would imagine I would have to guess that people have similar motivations from similar needs. When medicine fails us, we have to look to altenatives. When we can't make our understanding of current lifestyles or religion work, we have to look for alternatives or invent history and religion all over again from scratch. The world has failed in so many ways and the whole world is looking for a way out. Americans seem to be more creative in science and technology, while Indians have a more spiritual, people oriented approach. I would imagine differences stem from that. You expect and find spiritual alternatives coming from India and technicalities and alternative dogmas in Western religion. In America we hug trees instead of monkeys and environment issues are different. We tend to look at technical issues and India people issues as related to environment. That's seems to be about all that I can remember.