SSC-CGL (TIER-III) - Westernization - boon or bane
Category : SSC
WESTERNIZATION- BOON OR BANE
Key Points:
Introduction
Positive impacts
Negative impact
Way ahead
THE ESSAY BEGINS...
The growing westernization of Indian culture is a widely-discussed and debated topic today. Indians who have strong belief in Indian culture see this as a corruption, of the younger generation's morals. Whether this is truly so is a matter that needs to be analyzed.
Westernization means the adoption of western ideals and assimilating it to one's way of life. The pop mix we hear in today's songs to the jeans that we wear can be cited as examples of this. Intellectuals of the 1990s criticized this as the influence of globalization, a thing that will lead to the deterioration of Indian values. After the passage of more than two decades after the onset of globalization in India, it is our turn to judge whether this has become a boon or bane.
Westernization has brought with it the positive ideals of rational thinking and scientific temper. It has also expanded the knowledge horizon of the Indians. The digital revolution that it has brought about in India has drastically changed the economy for the better. It has expanded our number of options, in dresses and in music and in everything else. There is a tendency at present to attribute everything vice to westernization, alcohol and tobacco consumption and party culture being few of them. As humans, we all are gifted with rationality to choose what's right for us. It is our responsibility to exercise that choice wisely.
Everything in the world has a bad and a good side. A man, with his sense of rationality chooses what's right for him. One can always stay in one's own culture and yet enjoy the good aspects of westernization.
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