INDIAN CULTURE TRANSFORMING TO WESTERN

India is very rich in terms of its Culture and Traditions and its languages, religions, food, lifestyle, music, architecture differ from place to place. Various elements of India’s diverse cultures, such as Indian religion, Yoga, Ayurveda and its rich Rituals have a great impact on this whole world. India is usually tagged with the phrase, ‘unity in diversity’. India is a nation of 29 different states which among themselves differ in culture, languages, and traditions.

Western culture has affected almost every dimensions of the society. We can also say that it has impact on Indian traditions and changes life style of the society. Each and everything including clothing, fashion, food, media, and traditions has been affected by the advent of western culture. The youth prefers to wear western dresses rather than traditional Indian dresses.

It has been a complaint that Indians are highly influenced by western culture. In terms of economy, food and culture make sure our youth do not forget the richness of being Indian. People are blindly starts following western culture without knowing its consequences.   

Westernization gives rise to nuclear families. The most effected part is our new blooms, which have sprouted they find themselves stressed in this environment as there is no one to take care of them.  They will not get the love of their grandparents. It is very unfortunate that new sprouts remain cut off from moral values.

Divorce rate in India is lowest among all the countries in the world. It seems that 1 out of 100 Indian marriages that turning into breakups. In America there is 50% of marriages that ends up to a divorce. The rate of divorce in India was even low in the previous decade, where only 7.40 marriages out of 1,000 marriages were annulled. The divorce rate in Indian villages is even lower in caparison to urban India. Around 20 years back India had a negligible divorce rate of around 5%. But based on the increasing number of divorce being filed today, the divorce rate in India is expected to rise up at a faster rate by the ensuing year.

There is no harm in learning good things from western culture but this does not mean that we completely adopt it and dislikes Indian values. It is shocking to see that Indian are forgetting their culture and western people coming here to seeking the value of true peace, which is totally absent there.

In past in India men wear 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. 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.