Impact of western culture over indian essay
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“Civilization is what we have, culture is what we are”—Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. India is a nation with a unique identity among the world nations. Because any nation will have a single tradition and culture but we are the nation with diverse traditions and multi cultures. The things which depict Indian culture are its Dances, Music, Literature and many more. Due to globalization several things pervaded into India from the western world. These things brought a drastic change in certain common aspects like food habits and dress wear. Of course wearing the dress which we feel comfortable may not be an offence but ignoring the things like traditional wear on festivals and auspicious occasions should be considered with serious attention. Apart from these two, we are neglecting many things which were once considered as unique talents of India.
Dance—India possessed different styles of dances like Kuchapudi, Bharatanatyam, Kathakali, Manipuri and Odissi etc. Certain people considered these as their profession and used to earn their living by giving performances in auditoriums. Similar is the case with music.
Music—no way inferior to western music India has its own vocal and instrumental music. The vocal includes carnatic and Hindustani styles. The instrumental includes veena (often referred as analogy to goddess saraswati), tabala, mrudangam and shehnai. These days the teachers of these instruments are saying that the instrument veena isn’t attracting more students because students are feeling it is too heavier to carry from one place to another.
Literature—Rabindranath Tagore, the man whose works are applauded by western people was felicitated him with prestigious Nobel Prize for his work Gitanjali. Since then no Indian received that prize which doesn’t mean our ability to write is reduced. We are underestimating ourselves and we are very interested in reading the books of J.K.Rowling but not the books written by Indian authors. How many of us know the names of Arundati Roy and Arvind Adiga who won the prestigious literary award—Man Booker Prize.
What reasons made Indian culture to lose its glory and legacy:
1. In this competitive world, every parent is expecting their child to focus on academics as much time as possible in which these activities are not part.
2. Majority of education includes works of western people (except local language and social studies).
3. Lack of support for artists of these talents
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Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of people, the way of life, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. Every country has its own culture and traditions. I belong to India which is famous for Hindu culture. In this culture there are many different gods worshiped by different caste and tribe in India. But the most common is Lord Shiva. There are major differences between Western and Indian culture in ideology. As Western culture is open minded in nature and Indian culture is of orthodox views. Another major difference, Western culture is materialistic in nature and Indian Culture is religious in nature. But as time changes both culture’s intersection are witnessed in their culture. Adopting good views like family, love and harmony. In Indian culture adopt one good thing from western culture to providing education to girls and allow them to do job which helps her to support their family member and become independent. Western culture also adopted good views from Indian culture like yoga, meditation for inner happiness of person.
I have been living in USA since 2015 and I notice the difference between Indian culture and United States culture. Here I describe about the family characteristic, In the Western culture mostly people believe in nuclear families. Here people are independent, they do whatever they want like in American culture once children’s reach age of 18, they consider as an adult and they move out from their houses.
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