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Must be imparted to Youth

Young Bites. Dated: 1/19/2018 9:47:59 AM

Indian culture is indeed a beautiful composition of old established traditional and ethnic trends and patterns since India is a secular country and it possesses the people belonging to varied backgrounds hence this diversity makes our India a culturally diversified nation and also symbolize a vast heritage of ancient culture. We have different cultures followed in different states of our country. With so much of westernization and modernization our culture has undergone slight changes, although, our culture is so old and so deeply rooted that no other foreign culture can disturb its integrity but still we also cannot deny that the young generation who has been born in the modern times are rather much more influenced by the western culture. They in fact find our Indian culture more of complex and too much traditionalized. The lifestyles, dialect, attitudes, behaviour, ideologies of the youth of today are found to be highly altered by the western culture of other countries. Culture gives us an Identity, what we do that makes us what we are. Switching over to other cultures apart from our own is like condemning one’s own culture. Reason being why the Indian youth of today are overwhelmed by the western culture because somewhere they are ignorant of the vast cultural diversity and heritage of their own country. In fact the young generation should be imparted the whole knowledge about the great Indian culture during the early periods of their childhood. At schools and particularly at the elementary stage children should be given knowledge of different traditions, customs, patterns, and folk ways, complied in our culture. This can be done through medium of showing them pictures, story-telling, out-door cultural group activities and etc. We all love our culture from our head, heart and soul, but still we feel that it is losing its essence over the time. The reason for this could be anything – difference in thoughts, non-acceptance of certain values, change in perception and change in the lifestyle. But all these reasons are as volatile as they can be. Indian culture is one culture which embraces everybody and the sole reason for that is because it respects every person, every religion and every thought.The basis of Indian culture is acceptance of different views, but the meaning and the version of this has changed over the time because every person perceives it in a different way. So, it is essential to forget all the different versions and support just one basic rule – respect each individual.