Are we leaving our culture in the brand name "MODARNIZATION"?????

yea i think sarika is right,we think soas sarika says but other side its not mean to change in our culture and tradition .its only to change our our mental living

WE HAVE COME FAR AWAY FROM OUR CULTURE AND STILL GOING FAST IN THE WRONG DIRECTION TO BE MODERN .IT IS HIGH TIM WE REALISED THE VALUES OF OUR TRADITION,CULTURE,FAMILY BONDAGE,SOCIAL HABITS AND START FOLLOWING THEM IN THE INTEREST OF OUR OWN SELVES.

Thanks for the referral Dr.Ali.

Sorry I cant support you in this debate........ the reason being simple... I fully believe in one thing and that is a socio cultural binding on a human being keeps his day to day activites honest and pure. For me a person who does not has a culture is an uncivilised person...(regret on this comment if anyone is hurt),and uncivilised means he/she is not going towards modernisation but towards the black hole or a burmuda triangle or a mysterious place where he /she does not find anyone with him/her but is alone...no ethics, no values is the result of evolution of culture...these are the reasons we find to satisfy ourselves as a constantly growing and changing culture......there is some solid base to our culture which need to be kept solid...ideas like these can create a crack to it...as water if constantly drips on a concrete member creates a depression and results into weakening of the concrete.

Modernisation this word came from the west as we consider them as modern countries....can anyone explain what is the culture of USof A, do they have ethics..and values...I am working with those people and they find India as a place for serinity,Peace of mind ...Y? If they had cultures their wont be so many un-ethical practices, uncultural,un-civilised bahaviours seen in there.

I fully agree with our members and especially Sayan...very well said.

as the world becomes more and more of a cultural village, the local culture will get subsumed in to the global culture. some amount of local culture will be lost in this assimilation. It should be noted that that loss is also part of the global as well as the local culture. The global culture gains a local ethos and the local culture gains the prestiege of havingf contributed to the global one. A good example is the acceptance of the word GURU in the english language worls wide.

All this is natural progression of progress resulting form growth.

Indains are well known for learning all of bad things and miniscule of good from every where. We have modernised the way we worship god- we decorate the idols with modern decorative items, we use loudspeakers every where as if the god is deaf, we use electricity as if god is blind and cant see in darkness, but the god we worship wont speak and dont use Ear plugs. We store wealth in Temples but not use it for building schools, houses and hospitals for the needy and infrastructure essential for economic development.

We build Kalyanamantaps to show a way on how to showoff your wealth and spend illgotten money, but not build hopsitals

We learn fashion from every where to show we are modernised. Our girls - hope a day will come they walk naked on the street, hope a day will not come our boys will chase girls like dogs.

We build modern houses with expensive floor tiles, wall tiles, and fittings, but with out any natural light and ventilation. We keep our houses clean and tidy by throwing garbage infront of neighbours house. We buy vehicles pnly to show our wealth, but either dont use them or if we use dont follow traffic rules, We build footpaths and every year re do the surface with new things, but only to allow the shopkeepers to use them as their dispaly area and we walk on the road. We cultivate habits let me only survive at the cost of everyone else

All in the name of modernisation. God (If he is there) save us.

It's the most bizzare comment I have ever found made by one in this topic.

"That because of clients, we need to leave few cultural things and if we want to be developed we need to sacrifice"

There are many modern and developed people on earth who can put many modern Indian beneath their shoes but they not necessarily think leaving own culture and development go hand in hand.

Common I visited 8 countries and few of them non western and they are developing fast and they are not at all and they keep their culture along with development.

In Africa they dress in their national dress on last working day and they proudly display it, and we respected it.

In Arab they proudly wear robe as fashionable clothing and rest of the people looks dumb among them.

In France they proudly do their business in their language and others need to learn it to work with them.

In Japan they proudly introduce their style into business.They don't take up spoon and fork to replace their chopsticks even in western countries.

So when you say, to be developed we need to sacrifice few things, you are actually reflecting a well crafted colonized mentality that everybody laugh at when they see you following it.

We can blend our culture with our development only if we have confidence in what we are doing.

We will throw ourselves and our culture to dustbin when we want to achieve things that we are not capable of.

Be modern and developed in what you do--not in what you loose.

So have confidence in what you are capable of and world will follow you!!!

Modernization means updating the existing structure or not useful one. But it has nothing to do with our rich culture that should not be destroyed at any cost. The term modernization relates to only the business development and production process & manufacturing and it should be construed in this way only.

One may have modern education or he may dress well but he should not sacrifice his culture. Hence modernization helps to improve in technology, knowledge, educational pattern, of course, other way of life style, but please remember, not to deteriorate the culture. 

yes,leaving our culture in the name of modernization is  good if this modernization unite us

I agree with sarika...we are misunderstood about it....and we are leaving our culture and peoples behind it.