Indian confussion of being polite and being professional

I think in India there is big confussion between politeness and being professional.

Being professional has very less to do with being polite. Infact being professional is far tougher then being polite and that is why people try to use politeness instead of being professional.

You can be professional and non-polite and vise versa is also true.
Both of them are good qualities, having both is complementary and everyone should try to learn both.

So here is the confussion in India, if I am polite then I am professional and if I am not polite I am not being professional.

Politeness is antonym of rude.
I *think* Professionalism is antonym of being lausy.

Let me give few examples

• If you are coming late in meeting and not informing that you will be late that is lousy and if you are coming late in meeting not appologying for that that is impolite. You cannot compensate not informing with an apology. 
• If you are tell to your sub-ordinate that you will do something at night and not doing that that is lousy, not apologying for wrongly commit something is not being polite. 
• Some of the things that very freqently observed in office 
• When you taking interview and candidate got rejected. If you are not communicating this is candidate along with feedback this is not professional while if you communicate this in a insulting or rude way that is not polite. 
• Not coming for interviews in time and later apologying for that
• Not giving feedback in time
• Not coming on meeting in time or asking to reschedule and later apologying for that. 
• commiting and not completing and later apologying for that.
• If you are commiting or misinforming to engage someone for any task that is very unprofessional and people think that is fine as long as they are polite and later they can change it. 

People in India really need to become professionals and not just polite and think they are professional.