Our Culture is Decaying

I think our culture is decaying because the school days that my father had experienced like no competition among kids in studies, playing manual games instead of video games and goes on the great gurukul system is vanished respect has vanished instead of amma and appa dad and mom came value of Indian culture is slowly disappearing sarees and dhotis are replaced but still I hope for some values somewhere may the hope be true, yes we should change according to time and situation but should not forget the root that is still holding us without falling.

According to my thoughts, our culture is really decaying. We follow the western culture and foreign culture and forget the Indian culture. India is a country of different people and different culture but why we should follow the another culture. Our Indian culture supports the youth for martyrdom, support for unfair, support for saving other life, respect the elders and elders, avoid drugs and many much more things. But today we follow different culture like forget the respect of teachers and elders, avoid nation love etc if we really want to follow the western culture and foreign culture, first of all, we know very well they were follow some points like cleanliness, systematic and good management, punctual of time, and invent a different things but they can't follow the Indian religious culture or agriculture etc. For adjoining this foreign culture media and technology plays a very vast role.

Hello,

Firstly I would like to say that modernization to Indian culture has both positive and negative traits, but more of negative than positive.

1. In past, women were given at most respect mainly because of the way they dress and the way they would tolerate all the hurdles in family and keep the surrounding in harmony.

But now it has changed at an alarming rate. The length of cloth used by women and girls has decreased which is one of the reasons for which they are prone to rapes.

2. More over divorce cases are increasing only because women are slowly losing their patience and tolerance level to balance their family.

3. One of the biggest drawback of modernization is the rapid emerging of media which is becoming at most bane than being boon.

4. Earlier marriages were carried out for about 15 days with all rituals that would make all members of family gather at one place and have lot of happiness all over.

Marriage would be remembered as the greatest occasion their lives but now register marriage is the trend which ends in few minutes with just signatures.

So these marriages would not be cherished in long run. These are just few aspects of it still are many instances that clearly states how our culture is adversely affected.

During 1830s lord Macauley, a British minister visited India and found the richness Indian culture he gave a statement that I've travelled across the boundaries of this country in if we wanna rule it we have to destroy its culture. And there starts our culture decaying. Gurukul was replaced by modern schools, Sanskrit by English, classical dance by western dance and many more. I'm not saying that it was bad, but every country needs amendments in its culture with time but losing culture totally from our lives is bad. A culture of a country define its people and throwing away the values of culture is bad.

Good Morning Friends,

According to me, I am an Indian. I am proud to be an Indian. But absolutely our culture is decaying. Nowadays there are many things reveal the decaying against our culture.

For example nowadays different variety of foods are there. But these foods affect our health. So there are affects many people like vitamin deficiency, bone depreciation, diabetes, blood pressure.

Before 50 years peoples ate maize, rye, ragi. But nowadays there are so many problems. The peoples lead to these kind foods should be taken.

Nowadays dress codes are changed the foreign culture. Even dress also affects our health. Like jeans are making some problems in our health. The peoples should follow our culture.

Not at all our culture is decaying. It still develop by some of the students. Eg. Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu. If we united no one makes us to hit. If we are against culture purely we fall. Because our ancestors know how to act how to speak. Things may change but not our genes DNA.

Yes, Our culture is DECAYING. I still remember the days when we were first introduced to Television. A popular serial "Hum Log" used to be aired. I was still a kid in class 4th or 5th. I remember most characters wore traditional clothes except for "Nanhe" a young boy. We idolised him started wearing jeans instead of kurta pyjama. Congratulations, Culture erosion had just begun. We took pride in learning English, started ignoring Sanskrit, as it was our optional language till 9th. We chose to educate our kids in convent schools and Kendriya Vidyalaya remained with government employees. There's nothing bad in updating oneself technically but aping the west is one should strongly despise. We should remember that our roots teach brotherhood and love not greed and lust. All that west has taught us is to compete against each other and stoop low to reach the bottomless pit of deceit and betrayals. We could revive our culture by doing small things like saying name with hands folded in prayer and touch feet of elders and gurus. We use Hindi as much as possible. Visit temples as frequently as possible. Teach our kids to bow low in respect and not reach so high is life so that when time comes we are not bound to stay at elderly homes and our last rites conducted by people we don't even know.

I feel its a question of changing behavior of the average person in our society. These days people have become more selfish and there is a tremendous lack of empathy for other people, for the society. Back in old days people fought to protect their family, country and god. These days its just total and absolute addiction to entertainment and fun seeking activities and temporary gratification of senses. I have nothing against all of this, but for entertainment and fun to become the sole focus of living, that's what is disturbing. Another worrying trend is that these days people in general just can't seem to get along with each other. It seems that stress and tension and quarreling over insignificant issues has become a constant factor in the daily life of the average person. As a direct result of this people are now more distant and divided from each other and more self-centered. People prefer online communication more via internet/mobile than real face to face communication. The human bonding that is the adhesive of a strong and healthy society is fast evaporating. I feel people should wake up to the fact they are being distracted by endless entertainment and divided by petty quarrels. All of this may sound negative bit I feel this is what is actually happening and this is certainly not our way of living and definitely not our culture.

I don't think culture decays, it actually improvises and I think our culture is in no way better than others except for the zero. Oh! come on guys many people in this world gave science their contributions but that doesn't judge their culture. Here culture actually refers to traditions and customs followed by us. In America, the divorce rate is 40% and in India, it is 1% but, it doesn't mean that married people in India are happy, they (mostly women) adjust for their children and also they are afraid of society. We have dowry system, even now in many rural places child marriages are happening. Coming to our ancient India, we forget that there is even Sati. Even after independence 40 cases were discovered on Sati, god knows how many were not known to the jurisdiction. Arranged marriages where mama and papa see the girl and approve her as if she is a broomstick checked if its incorrect condition before using it. Then the boy marries her mostly without even knowing her likes and dislikes, opinions. So, finally I just want to repeat what Dalai Lama said. Open your arms free, get ready to change with the world but do not Let go your values. Most of us believe that today our culture is decaying but who set the culture, we the human beings right?

Hi friends,

My name is Gunna Satish,

Yes, India culture is decaying. In my view best culture in the world is India. But the Indian citizens are not follow their culture, because they mostly attract towards the foreign culture. Examples like dresses, mobiles, makeup kits, etc.

The interesting matter is foreigners like Indian culture very much. Because our way of talking, human values, traditional dressing, food habits, hard working, punctuated love. Any person wants to know about Indian culture, please visit villages. The villagers do not know tell lies.

They are honesty persons and follow ethical values. Their marriage system is excellent. All types of communities, religions, castes living in India. They always interact with family members and share their opinions (feelings) and solve their problems.

Please I request to every one save the Indian culture. (Avoid foreign brands).