Posted By: ssrkraju Hi All,              Foreign Channels! The things that strike our minds are CNN, BBC, ESPN, FTV, STAR MOVIES, AXN, and other n no. Of channels which do dominant the viewer ship choice. The point here is do they affect our culture.   Coming to our culture, it is diversified and has a broad spectrum. One point I would like to make it clear to the outset is that foreign countries like America or such developed countries took a long time to shift the modern culture we are witnessing. The trend was a continuous one and it was never a sudden shift. So, the transition was smooth and they do have no complaints about it. The children and parents do have a mindset to tackle their day-to-day scenario, which may look absurd to us. Yes! They do have a different culture and its common for them to have two or three marriages in a lifetime and women also have the strength to live an independent life. Even the children do have the courage to face any consequences and they also become independent very soon in their career.   Given this scenario the channels they do portray a mirror image of their culture and their tastes. It is ok for them to view semi-naked or naked movies or shows and it’s a part and parcel of life over there. Whereas in India a women is treated as god (at least what our culture says). We can’t expect our people to behave in that manner. It can be taken as a way of entertainment, but cannot be replicated. The recent trend of movies and shows by Indians is much alarming. The divide between the rural and urban does have an impact on this society. Nowadays the anchors or heroines or songs do have an adverse affect on our culture, which are showcased by our own Indian people. So, where does the question arise that they destroy our culture. Suppose, we have a knife in our possession, using it to kill a person or to cut a vegetable solely lies in our hands. We can’t blame the knife for it.   Now, looking at the better side of the aspect. We do have informative news channels, which have 24*7 coverage of world. They do provide information and knowledge to all age groups. The cartoon channels are a big boon to our kids. The creativity in animation and the digital effects of sound they put in, virtually they put life into those pictures. It is in our hands how many hours our kids spend before them. The channels like AXN and the like do bring out our courage to face life in all their ups and downs. The sports channels do give us coverage of complete sports where we can watch our sports person performing in an international arena like we saw our speedster Karthikeyan. It is again in our hands how much time we glue ourselves to the idiot box. The NGC or Discovery channels do add the spice of life with their coverage on wide range of topics from War Scenarios, Scientific missions like rover to mars, Animal kingdom, Volcanic eruptions, Tornados, etc risking their own life providing us the best from the world. Life has now become an inevitable for many of us without listening to those English beats thanks to some of those channels.   So, we do have something to ponder upon to decide for ourselves to deal with the present scenario. Good for good, bad for bad.   Posted By: sandyhunter            I don't think it is the foreign channels to be blamed for destroying our culture. There is something to learn from everything. What we take from these depends on our wisdom. The programs on some channels may look offensive or a bit weird in contrast to the programs that are part of the regional channels. There are channels, which are very useful for the educative class, and there are also channels, which portray the so-called "unethical " in our culture. Most of these are meant for entertainment and communication of information. It's all left to us to decide what's to just enjoy what's to learn.             An adult may make a wise decision. But this may not be the case with a kid. They as the way of life, and something that they would try to imitate can take things shown on TV. So at least as far as kids are concerned there has to be an adult supervision and their access to these channels should be limited.  Childhood is the crucial part of one's learning so the values of our culture should be learnt by every child and which is to be made sure by his parents. The channels cannot influence the child's psyche as long as parents and people around him are responsive enough about carrying ahead their culture through their children. Once these values are learnt no channel would be a threat to our culture, but would be a source of learning about the true values of other cultures that may matter to us positively, we would watch every obnoxious program, which can be very entertaining, but still preserve our culture.   Posted By: renu Hello                 Definitely those are destroying our culture and social system. As rena expressed her views that its depends on the individual perception. But these channels are influencing the younger generation and having the demonstration affect which in turn spoils the system.                Some of the foreign channels like BBC, DISCOVERY etc those all are educative and informative channels but not related to culture.                Culture is not only the dressing behavior it also pertains to Social system, Customs, Traditions, Ethical values, Way of living, Rituals, Social functions and Spiritual things.                These values erupted and transmitted from generation to generation is to be conserved while living in the modern era.         Posted By: bubby              Yes they are destroying our culture in some ways, and in some other ways they are helpful in inculcating good knowledge.              We were well known for our tradition and culture. But becoz of these foreign channels people is getting attracted towards western culture. As one of our famous Indian SWAMY VIVEKANANDA explained about Indian culture in a meeting of Chicago, which inspired the people of other countries to great extent that they wanted to follow the Indian tradition. But its unfortunate thing that today we are forgetting out Indian culture and trying to follow foreign culture.          Yes as raju said using r misusing the foreign channels depends on our hands. But we know that people get attracted towards bad then good .So these channels have become a source of getting attracted towards bad then good.           Channels reflect ones culture to a great extent. So they are a source to become well known about different cultures. And also to know about their standards of living.           So finally we should grasp well and leave the bad .Any technology is useful is we use it in proper way.   Posted By: manas Well guys it’s a very nice topic. "Foreign television channels r destroying our culture".             Actually in my point of view it completely depends on u and ur intrest. They’re many channels like discovery, national geography, all news channels and sports channels broadcasts the stuffs that we cannot get anywhere.             The knowledge we gets from here are hardly we get from anywhere. I think very less or no channels could do it now or never in India.              Looking at the other side we also gets some channels which r full of sex and these types of materials.             So what ssrkraju told we cannot blame d knife for it. We should adopt the valuable things not the bad.  

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