TakingITGlobal - Panorama

Published on: Feb 1, 2003

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https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=987

Modernization is blamed as one of the reasons for the youth to forget their culture. Many parents in urban areas are not practicing their culture; as a result the youth are not exposed or interactive with their own culture. Parents have already forgotten their responsibilities; they should maintain and improve their culture by teaching it to their children despite the gush of other intruding cultures dominating them. Nowadays, parents are making their children a Westerner instead of making them a Nepali. Our culture is being pushed aside by new models from abroad spreading by satellite. The logic of profit have always dominated the human minds similarly to the youth here, they go to different developed countries for opportunities for they are highly paid there. The youth who have gone to different countries like America and Australia in search of opportunities come back as an American or an Australian completely, not a Nepali.

The food reflects the tradition of our country. The young generation has already forgotten the traditional food like “gundruk”, “sinki”, etc. instead it is replaced by fast food, etc. Fast food has already dominated the world in food. T-shirts and jeans have already dominated the entire youth clothes market. National dress must also be given priority. Nepalese sweets are in the point of extinction because everybody prefers foreign sweets. The foreign movies have already dominated Nepali movies. Many youth doesn’t like the presentation and screening of the actors but we can work for the betterment.

The nature of the youth is that they want to learn from what they are exposed to, as youth are highly influenced by satellite television, they interact with other cultures and are influenced by it. Nepal television is promoting Nepalese culture and tradition by showing different cultural shows but a very small number of youth is interested in it. Youth here are changing from their Nepali identity therefore it is really essential to educate the youth about culture because Nepali identity should pass from them to the next generation after them. This doesn’t mean that youth should ignore modernization, but it means that youth can go with modernization along with their culture.

Prabesh Paudyal
NEPAL

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by Prabesh Paudyal
Published on: Feb 1, 2003
Topic:
Type: Opinions
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=987


Modernization is blamed as one of the reasons for the youth to forget their culture. Many parents in urban areas are not practicing their culture; as a result the youth are not exposed or interactive with their own culture. Parents have already forgotten their responsibilities; they should maintain and improve their culture by teaching it to their children despite the gush of other intruding cultures dominating them. Nowadays, parents are making their children a Westerner instead of making them a Nepali. Our culture is being pushed aside by new models from abroad spreading by satellite. The logic of profit have always dominated the human minds similarly to the youth here, they go to different developed countries for opportunities for they are highly paid there. The youth who have gone to different countries like America and Australia in search of opportunities come back as an American or an Australian completely, not a Nepali. The food reflects the tradition of our country. The young generation has already forgotten the traditional food like “gundruk”, “sinki”, etc. instead it is replaced by fast food, etc. Fast food has already dominated the world in food. T-shirts and jeans have already dominated the entire youth clothes market. National dress must also be given priority. Nepalese sweets are in the point of extinction because everybody prefers foreign sweets. The foreign movies have already dominated Nepali movies. Many youth doesn’t like the presentation and screening of the actors but we can work for the betterment. The nature of the youth is that they want to learn from what they are exposed to, as youth are highly influenced by satellite television, they interact with other cultures and are influenced by it. Nepal television is promoting Nepalese culture and tradition by showing different cultural shows but a very small number of youth is interested in it. Youth here are changing from their Nepali identity therefore it is really essential to educate the youth about culture because Nepali identity should pass from them to the next generation after them. This doesn’t mean that youth should ignore modernization, but it means that youth can go with modernization along with their culture. Prabesh Paudyal NEPAL « return.