Question

Essay on 'Aping The West'

Answer 1

It is the age of globalisation. The world has shrunk to a global village.The modern industrial culture is the product of western culture. It is quiet natural that it dominates the cultural scenario of the civilized world. The younger generations like fun,enjoyment and adventures. Their fascination for the materialistic culture is quite obvious. They ape western culture. They are indifferent to their great cultural heritage. Their attitude to the age long customs and values is quite lukewarm. Some times they openly defy and make mockery of traditions,old ideas and ideals.

There should be no room for narrow thinking. Culture and ideas know no geographical limits. Liberalisation of our economy opened gates for the multinational companies in India. Western corporations are the ambassadors of the western life styles,values and culture.

The love of our young men and women for Ray-Ban goggles ,Addidas shoes, LeCoste's T-shirts, Pepe jeans and many other established brands of the West have become a reality. Boys & Girls in schools and colleges know little about Pandit Ravi Shankar & Pt. Jasraj. They dance to the tunes of Pop stars like Michael Jackson, Madona & the Venga Boys.

The Growing pub culture in big cities has popularised boozing among young men. Late night discoes and Beer-clubs are doing the rest. Actually, the younger generation in India in India is passing through a cultural crisis.Poverty,corruption, frequent communal riots and religious fanatiscim have created indifference towards their own culture. They are not exposed to the spiritual and lastings values of Indian Culture.
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Answer 2

“APING THE WEST”

Of late the trend has been to follow whatever is done in the west and it is becoming a sort of in-thing to be doing it.  Is it due to liberalization of economy that we are also attempting to liberalize our life style.

Indians have started aping the west completely and the western influences can be clearly seen in our behavior, culture, attire and even language. Though to say, we are an independent nation but instead of promoting our culture, we are aping the west and one would feel that we are still under a foreign rule.

For sake of argument, let us say this is so. Then, why not also follow the west in the matter of discipline and work culture instead of merely picking up all those habits which would not help in taking us forward.  

 Some may describe this copying specially of festivals like Valentine's Day or whatever other day maybe there as keeping up with the time.  
   That is fine. But, what about matters like dedicated to one's work or keeping to the schedule as is the case in most of the western nations. Why not follow such examples too.  
   In fact many of the TV programmes too are being copied from the west. Can't we think something original and suited to the Indian tastes.  
   One good trend that has of course been noticeable is in the film industry where the latest films are being focused on the emerging life styles and how western culture is seeping into ours. Hopefully, the message would go across and a positive result comes out of it. 

Coming to the point, majority of Indians have turned out to be figure conscious and it is mainly the female gender which gossips about their vital statistics more than their counterparts. This shows that in the recent few years the western culture has indeed slowly influenced the minds of the Indians through various factors, one being the beauty pageants which have played a major part in revolutionizing the mentality of the Indian society.

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