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Posted By: pavani

          How there is head and tail for a coin, there is both positive and negative impact of western culture on India and especially on Indian youth,

          In past in India men were our traditional dresses, but now it is entirely changed, now the Indian youth moving with jeans, t-shirts, minis, micros, etc., here we can proud of that western culture, it bringing us with the fast moving world.

           But when we consider the pubs, it is the thing to be strictly punished. In pubs both men and women are in drastic stage, by taking drugs, it should be punished. And we need to felt sorry for that.

           And there r many things to be taken from the western culture.

Posted By: navedkhan05

              THERE HAS BEEN AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF EFFECT OF WESTERN CULTURE ON US. IT CAN BE EASILY FELT BY THE FOOD, ATTIRE AND WAY OF LIVING OF CITIZENS.SPECIALLY ON DRESSES IT HAS MADE ADVERSE EFFECTS. SO IT IS NOT GOOD FOR OUR CULTURE.OUR YOUNG GIRLS ARE WEARING SKIRTS, MICROS, AND MINIS ETC. WHICH EXCITES THE BOYS LEADING TO SOME SERIOUS CRIMES SUCH AS RAPE ETC. BUT ON THE FLIPPER SIDE THE WAYS OF LIVING HAS BEEN GREATLY ENHANCED WHICH IS GOOD FOR SUCCESS AND GROWTH OF THE COUNTRY AND HELPFUL FOR IT IN HEADING TOWARDS SUPER POWER AHEAD OF USA. SO I FEEL THAT IT HAS BOTH GOOD AND BAD EFFECTS

Posted By: ulty

             I Strongly believe that there is a substantial influence of western culture on Indian youths. Mere mention of the word 'India' signifies a place of cultural heritage as well as diversity. But the cultural legacy that we are showing to the whole world is becoming a thing of history in metropolitan cities.

            On one side we enjoy our so-called rich culture and really admire it but on the other side we find discotheques full of young guys and girls. Secondly, Joint family tradition; one of the biggest assets of India is now vanishing under the shadow of the so-called western culture. Nuclear families are taking place of many years' old values. Youth of today is more interested in their privacy rather than enjoying their lives with others. Individualization has broken up the joint family system, paving way for the youth to fall prey to drug addiction. This stage is the most vulnerable period of life where the youth need guidance, counseling, education and care by parents.

             So how did we get part of their culture over here, you ask, their culture has become over popularized here, through electronic media that everyone wants to be just like them. Because of that India has lost her identity from all other countries. We’ve now become a copy – cat to all other nations and we may lose our individuality. The reason is because, we want another image, we don’t want to be the olden – day - traditional country, which still hasn’t become the so - called ‘modern’, even in the 21st century. We don’t want to look like imposters to all other well – developed countries. If you have ever thought of that, erase that thought because the image we’ve got planted in our minds is terribly wrong. India is not an imposter to other nations, it never has been, but will if the people of today continue to do everything they see on cable TV.

             India is an independent country now and has been for a while, with no such problems. The reason behind that is because our ancestors fought for us, so that we could have a future in our own way, not with any other way, which we are not used to. I’m not saying that India should stop everything they’ve learnt from western countries, but to have some individuality from other nations and to set an example to the other 3rd world countries and give out the message that there are other nations to set an example on.

        So, for the people who fought for us, for India to keep her dignity and to be a leader to other countries, we the people of today must be our own country and not be some other country, which we’re not. Everyone is his or her own countryman - why can’t we be our own as well?

Posted By: sowmya571

Hello

  Effect Of Western Culture On Indian Youth

             Well World is changing, because of lot of developments in various sectors like IT, MANUFACTURING, Revolution of E COMMERCE and many more ... have brought the ties between various nations/ people and their cultures to get mixed with each other. WELL I WOULD TAKE A BIASED OPINION IN THIS.

  Lets take example of USA. Well Indians are crazy of adopting Western Culture LIKE DRESS CODE, MUSIC, HABITS, IMPORTING FOREIGN GOODS. What not we feel so attracted to all those. But by adopting we dint loose our traditions and culture; we tend to blend both of them.

      It all depends on person likes and dislikes, how he /she will behave according to situations. As our friend PAVANI has mentioned like PUBS are to be strictly banned. Well that cant is possible realistically. If an individual decides what is good/bad for them every person can be in control ...rite

    I finally stress points like No matter people adopt what ever the culture ... They shud be in the limits and act rationally according to the situations. We jus cant stop/Ban things by considering it to be western /eastern. We need to analyze what benefits we get and try to choose.options. Since what all we want is PROGRESS/DEVELOPMENT ultimately to our nation. So IT’S EVERY PERSONS RESPONSIBILY TO CONTRIBUTE HIS/HER PART TO IT.

Posted By: anshumaan

              Yes, as the topic indicates Indian youths are very much influenced by this western culture. Their activities, habits and every other social movement have improved to a very great extent than it was a few years ago. This, from a perspective is good as it helps very much for the development and growth of an individual or in other words to widen his views about matters and also in approaching people.

              But at the same time so called social movements (like pubs, parties) all celebratable days (like mothers day, fathers day....) again an influence of the western culture are turning out to be a slow poison that's completely eating away our precious tradition and rich culture.

            The induced western culture is not all. There's something more, something really good that's actually to be followed or taken from them. Any influence that's going to retain our Nation and its traditional culture unaffected is always good to be welcomed.  

Posted By: cishawsharma

Hmm very interesting topic to answer

Every country has its own culture.

Binge drinking, smoking and wearing revealing cloths is not a culture of a particular country in west.

However we should have western influence in particular things like

   -- Hard working nature

   -- Doing the things perfectly which lacks in most Indians

   -- Commitment

  -- Loving their country like maintain the environment clean and         neat.

   --Especially western countries ban EVE TEASING and BULLYING

    They take it as very serious offence.

   -- Sincerity.

   --Respecting the fellow human begin.

Yes if you folks think that these are the qualities, which should be adopted by everyone, then we should have western influence on us.

I don’t think that smoking and boozing is a western influence.

Posted By: keerthi

There is great impact of foreign culture on youth

              We Indians have changed a lot in all aspects such as food, clothing, education etc. The foreign culture has influenced us to a great extent that today we especially youth give first importance to all foreign goods like T.V, cars, dresses, food any many things. We are not able to realize the simple fact that self-respect comes with self-reliance.

            But why this impact of foreign culture doesn’t show up when it comes to certain aspects like keeping the surroundings clean. We all know that in US people will be fined if they throw unnecessary garbage on roads. We respect their rules and regulations when we are in US. But more then 90% for us doesn’t care about cleanliness when it comes to Indian roads.

                That clearly indicates we are not giving that much respect to our country as we respect others.

           Another important thing is "IS their any country were dowry system is there?”. Why shouldn't that be implemented here also? Daily we read at least one news on "harassments for the sake of dowry" And people are even killing them for the sake of money. The so-called foreign cultures will never influence us in such aspects.

            I feel there are many advantages if we grasp the good instead of bad from them. As our friends said it merely depends on our hands and especially on our youth.

Posted By: ms4u65

Hi all,

This is d.madhusudan

          First and foremost it is absolutely right that the foreign culture has been affecting our lives in a gr8 way. Especially the youth have taken a special liking to the culture. I would like to add that this means that u r forgetting ur own culture and embracing the other s culture that is alien to u. As a result after adapting to the foreign culture the people behave in an indifferent manner.

             There for I appeal the youth to give up the foreign culture and embrace our own culture.
 

Posted By: mallika_saggi

A very good evening to all here

               In my opinion western culture has changed the face of Indian youth in the recent years. Today’s is a world of globalization and frequent change and the top among then being Indian youth as youth are always lingering with that emery and attitude they r most viable species to change and western culture have effected them in most of ways...it has changed their way of speaking, their mentality towards life, their general outlook, their personality and even petty issues like their way of dressing up and all.and to the mosst the change is of the western level. Sometimes acceptable and sometimes not acceptable in Indian society but most of the times not...it all depends...they have grown more free, family seems like a tie to one...they want to be independent want to have a life of their own where they are the masters, they ant to change the world at a stench...which is something not possible and India which has been stagnant has taken these changes as something against it's rich culture.         Somewhere it's true...we are earth people. And may not be able to breathe properly in air for long. So we need to be attached to our roots...and these roots have started losing it’s grip. Today...so as I said somewhere its rgt somewhere wrong.... so its not like that western is all about bad they are better then us...and of course this is where the difference btw developing and developed country exists.so if we want to follow then we must follow them about their goods...their way of working, their professionalism, their fgt towards cleanliness.... this is something worth learning from them. And it will further help us to improve in our own way...so copying the bad things of west will lead us nowhere...today's youth is running after west. Is likely to break all the ties at once but he doesn’t knew...the rich culture our country holds.... we are having lots a good things...so we don’t need running after anyone the only thing is...........the only thing we need is to improve in certain way. And our youth has the capability to do that. The need is to channels their energy in right direction...coz they are imp 2 our country n we need them. As citizens....

Posted By: meera

         Yah, the effect of western culture has changed Indian youth a lot. It has its own positive & negative side. To live in this completive world we have to make our self compatible to adopt the changing life style if it seems to be very comfortable.

        The effect of Western culture in Indian youth can be seen in most of the actives as dressing, food habits, the way of moving with others and even western dance has gained its popularity among Indian youth.

         We people usually underestimate our country and overestimate foreign countries. Usually we prefer to buy foreign products from perfume to car bcos we think those products were more quality than ours. There is something to learn from the foreigners as keeping the environment clean & not to throw the waste on the roadside. But we Indians follow these rules & regulations in their country but forget to implement in our country.

    And in this mechanical world we r slowly forgetting our traditional culture which may not be known to our future generation.

    So, it is in the hand of Indian youth to suck only the needed things from the western culture and leave the waste that is not needed.

Posted By: lakshmishank200

               One thing we have see when a person in saw industry can produce a errorless code why cant he make a country a clean free. The culture always lies in citizens. People always take things for granted. They choose a method that is quite easy. For e.g. in joint family he has to adjust with everybody but in the case of nuclear family he is free bird with less responsibility. If we citizens are able to adapt easily to the western wear why can’t we follow the same culture in maintaining the quality product, enjoying life-giving freedom for women and giving an equal respect to others

Posted By: raghu

HI,

            Yes we all know that Western Culture is affecting Indian Youth, but most of them are interested to know about the latest trends and latest brands of clothes and cars released in to the western market. But no one is interested to develop the same concept and Technology in India.

            If you are really interested in getting addicted to the Western culture, get to know about their mannerism and neatness of the surroundings. Wearing Jeans and minis is not enough to acquire the western culture.

            What I suggest is to get to know about the western culture but that should not affect OUR INDIAN CULTURE in a bad way.
 

Posted By: vinvish

                In my opinion the western culture has influenced us in many good ways like they have made us move along with the world. Many of us think that if one is influenced by western culture its not that you have to forget your culture. I think one is good enough to decide which is good or bad. Western culture has never said to go to bars, to follow their dress codes it’s our understanding of it, which makes it good or bad. Instead of taking bad things of it let us take good things out of it like their communication skills, their technology etc. What I want to say nobody can be forced to do things unless he wants to.