Morals & Values among Indians is Degenerating

Yes, it is a bitter truth!

The country that once said to be the epitome of culture, morality, and character, is today continuously degenerating and deteriorating in terms of morals and values. The result is that we are seeing an increasing number of perverts, delinquents and juvenile criminals, across the country. The pro-obscenity mass media, the valueless education system, the obsession with western culture, and poor parenting are the prime culprits for the degeneration of the youth of India. The addiction to pornography, violent video games, alcohol, drugs, etc. , is corrupting the mind of a large number of youngsters and teenagers. If India has to rise and become a great nation, it's youth, needs to be revived. Special stress should be given to improving the condition of girls and women and to make this country a safe haven for them conducive to their growth and prosperity! Then India will surely rise and make every citizen of it proud to be called an Indian!

Teenage is the age in which parents can build moral values in teens. We can not blame parents for not giving such values. A teen is spending hours from 7:30 to 3:00 in school, then 2 or 3 hrs in coaching classes, then home work, projects, assignments and on many more things, how much time parents get to teach these things. So parents are also helpless. Parents also want their kids to maintain moral values and relationship skills. There should be some programs either by schools or others to let teen be understood these values and to adopt the same.

In today's society every person in every street corner can give a fully convincing lecture on what the ideal moral values should be, about what's good and what's not, about what people should do and what not. You talk to any person these days he/she seems to be in possession of a perfect moral compass. Every tom, dick and harry seems to have beliefs, virtues, feelings, qualities and opinions of the highest standard. And with the advent of social media, preaching morality is now the new trendy thing to do. The internet is abuzz with videos, articles, memes, captions, quotes that are high on moral content. Everyday thousands of messages are circulated in whatsapp groups that are oozing with the morality juice. Every movie, every TV show depicts the triumph of good over evil and the ultimate win of morals and values. The world seems to have gotten itself into a huge morality preaching frenzy. So naturally the question arises, why is our society such a mess these days? In a world where everyone is fully loaded on morals and values, where every person seems to have a clear understanding of right and wrong, how can corruption, promiscuity, vulgarity, violence and every other form of depravity and debauchery rule? Why are people silent on these issues that are devastating society? I feel the only reason is that nowadays there is a huge difference between what people say in public and what they do in private. People's actions don't match with their words at all. People pretending to be at the epitome of all moral standards are usually at the bottom of it. People do only what is good in their own eyes and in most cases, this is just the opposite of what they are saying in public. For instance, someone preaching the importance of family may be the one cheating on their partners. People try to change the world with their morality but they don't try to change themselves with it. You speak to anybody these days you will generally end up listening to a lot of good stuff about life, about morals, about values. But when you enter into the lives of these same persons there is a good chance of you finding out that it was all just theory, meant only for putting on a show and not for actual practice. Nowadays we are also seeing the popularisation of simple high concept moral values. These are easiest to understand but hardest to follow. For example: Be a good person or Be honest or Be truthful or Be loyal. The whole moral compass is being gradually compressed into simple general stuff like these which everyone knows but usually find the most difficult to practice. Hence no one really bothers to practice them. Nobody really ventures into more complex stuff like how to be honest in a dishonest world or how to be kind in a cruel world or how to stay truthful in a lying world. One must remember that morality is relative and every generation has felt that their generation was somewhat more moral than the current generation. But when people are pretending to be someone and are actually just the opposite, that trend is disturbing.

The mindset of people can be changed if they are shown things with good background music and good plot story. The story will be accepted as either cool or if it is vulgar then it will be accepted as bold and experimental.

This powerful media ie. Movies can make you accept things that are against even your basic morality.

Teenagers easily fall in this net. And it doesn't stop there only. These movies ignite curiosity that ends in addiction to pornography. The curiosity that should be towards studies is misdirected and it ruins the morals to the lowest levels. Morals form the backbone of self-image and strength of mind which are tools for living a successful life. In studies or ahead.

Hit movies can be made from good plots and words also. I believe in clearly saying what is bad n not hiding its obscene scenes and lewd dialogues and foul words in the name of boldness. The argument that public likes it and it's their choice. Is correct but using their choice to fill producer's pockets is bad. You can give them a choice of watching good things instead on Friday.

And youth should be inspired by the boldness of Bhagat Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose, Gandhiji, or recent heroes like Sundar Pichai, Saina Nehwal etc.

And not with the boldness of some villain smoking a cigarette and giving fool dialogues to grab attention or boldness of item dance done with maximum vulgarity possible within boundaries set by censor board.

What we used to see in India a few years back also were joint families where parents grandparents uncle aunties lived together. There were mutual respect and value for each other. Everyone had an upper hand to build a child's character. But in today's world, we see families being nuclear ones. Both the parents are office goers and the child or children are left alone or with care takers. These children delve into internet and television and they receive the content and vulgarities shown through these media. So gradually they lack moral and ethical character. Not only that from a very early age they see parents money minded and they also become money minded and selfish. They dun have respect elders, not even their own parents. These all add up to the degradation of the moral character of today's generation who are going to lead tomorrow's India. Thus it is true that moral and values among Indians are degenerating over time. Thank you.

India is a country of Great Heritage where Great Priests and Saints took Birth and tried to spread the maximum Knowledge and messages in Favour of Mankind. They presented Various Theories and Formulated Various Ideas, some contradictory while some Very Scientific but whatever had been done was done just for Goodwill and Determine of humans.

But the irreligious, heretical, mean, and selfish thoughts spreading outside the country has severely attacked Indian Culture and Values.

It's not only that India was the Purest country but, the actual fact is that the influence of Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and scriptures on people lead them to live a simple, and true life.

But today, westernisation has penetrated so much into Indian minds that people have rendered their culture. It's fine that people find far off things better but to apply those things in our lives we must understand the impact of those things in a particular region. E.G. Christians don't find wrong eating flesh of a cow because their scriptures don't worship it but in an Indian society where Cow is worshipped as the Goddess of the Ultimate Heaven, eating its flesh is wrong and is banned.

And eating even the flesh of an animal is actually wrong because Just fit the sake of a better taste, the life of those poor creatures is wasted. And applying such wrong habits is not what actually should happen. Instead, the values of women Empowerment, Education, discipline, etc should be applied to life.

And before questioning our own cultural habits we must first question our own knowledge related to that topic because little knowledge is dangerous.

This is true. As we indians are easily attracted to the products of other countries. We Indians have forgot to respect our religion and have started trying to catch the religion of others. If we are following other religious beliefs of other countries then why we are not following other good points of them like honesty, trust, respect and many others. We indians have the power to change the world, only if we are united. So we should try our best to teach this to our fellow youth.

I believe that, all the above discussions are right. Today, our India is degrading because of the foreign countries.

They tend to make India in the lowest position. Recently, in 2017 many people were killed while playing the "Pokemon" game. Have the Indians introduced the game?No. The foreigners have done it. Now, the "Blue Whale" also came in the international market. Recently, one life is lost also. How much time will it take to reach India?

I don't know, how many lives it is still desiring to engulf. So, we must keep ourselves away from the ill-effecting outside products. I am not saying that all products are harmful. But, there are some and we must be aware of them.

One of the major reasons for degradation of moral values and ethics among the youth is the continuous worsening of quality education. Friends the current education system is all about getting a good job, making money and satiating your desires with it. Late night parties, movies, discos, clubs, hyperactive night life, giving more importance to social media this all have preoccupied our lives leaving no room for improving our moral standards. The Desire for materialistic gains and comforts, greed for luxury life has lead to corrupt practices and downfall of social values.

Indians have the unique talent of applying all the bad practices of other societies in theirs rather than encouraging the best for making lives better.

For example, when the US society today tries to cover its body, we Indians feel that exposing one's self would fetch one more popularity though we know that it is against what has been preached. When the world is opting for skilled individuals we opt for reserved individuals rather than talent.

The difference between us and the rest of the world is that. Though the other people apply Indians in their lives, they still practice their traditions too. But we are so dumb that we rather tend to practice the other practices and forget our own. I think this is the sole reason why we had been dominated by the cruel British. In other countries, where they try to provide respect to each and every living woman, we tend to disrobe her in the society. If she gets raped or murdered. Blame the lady for a no fault of hers rather than trying to seek justice. In India, watching these impractical movies has made the youth term their mistaken infatuation as true love. At a young age when one should rather be focussing on studies.