Technological India At The Cost Of Culture!
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By Imsuakum,
The young generation, the future of greater India is flowing rhythmically with the growth of westernization. It is creating a great impact on the mind with the innovation of the latest technology.
Today, even a 10-year-old child can describe things and feelings about love and technology, but is it worth it in a sociological sense?
In that fast-growing era which path do, we opt for?
Home utensils are mechanized and people find the work easier and lazier, the student finds the class notes with a click, and hacking is a major issue today. Today fresh idea and fresh creativity is rarely found but will they help the young generation in long run?
We engage most of the time using social networking sites, YouTube and other technology. Now, most peoples usually stay in their own respective rooms n roam around the world with a free ticket.
We no longer communicate with each other over a cup of coffee at our local café, we just click a button and we are instantly connected with each other. On one hand, this is great because we are able to keep in touch with each other no matter what, no matter where we are, however, there’s nothing like human interaction.
India has a rich culture with a diversity of tribes, people, religions, languages, and castes but how many people actually know everything about our rich culture, and dance? Sorry to say but only a few, and not even me. There are also children who don’t even know their mother language.
Technology was innovated with a good vision, and a clear thought but youngster of today is interpreting it in a different way and making life miserable. Back in the days when there was no Facebook and the revolution of the Internet was beginning, the only way you could surf the net was on a computer that was bigger than your house and if someone else in your household was not on the phone (that dial-up tone still haunts me to this day) but fast forward a decade or so, we can connect to the net literally anywhere (not having Wi-Fi is like sacrilege nowadays) plus we can speak to people worldwide by just the tap of a button.
According to a study by the Children’s Society, 43% of parents do not allow their children to play outside even though their childhoods were all about the outdoors and scraped knees.
Ask a 20 years old guy about the latest technology and he will tell u from the top to the roots of it as if he has been on some memory recitation but ask him about his culture and tradition.
The roots of his tribe.
Or the meaning of the places around him.
Or the origin of his village.
Out of 100 maybe not even 10% can answer about it.
Scholars say that;
“Culture is what we left, after all, we set out to learn”
Then are we really on that?
Are we really equipped with to what we are?
We know nothing…
Then how can we tell things about our culture to our younger generation? Aren’t we missing a precious thing running after technology?
In the real sense, we have become slaves in the hands of technology!
Yes, of course, there are some events that show our culture but how many attend to learn about it???
If we keep on going with things like this…
Will this be the beginning of losing out trends?
It is not that we must wear that semi-naked dress like our forefathers n roam around but at least we should know how they were and what have they done for us.
History of Indian culture and let us polish it so that it won’t fade away with the flow of time.
That’s not to say that technology is a bad thing. It has helped us advance in medical technology meaning that we are living longer and have a better quality of life. It has helped in economic development and also to overcome many social, political, intellectual and economic issues but let’s use it in the best possible way only whenever and wherever necessary, keeping our cultural pride alive.
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