Youth generation and western culture

Youth generation and western culture

New generation, particularly the youth and educated, are all out to imitate the Western culture. It has become a craze among the youth to have a lifestyle like that of Westerners generation. But we have to think of our diversity. We can imitate one thing that is not belongs to our culture. We have to learn it not foster it for our last long heritage. We have some distinctive culture than others. Western has strong cultural heritage. We see they maintain it properly. What is good that’s goods for all human being? Before taking something from western we have to think of its implication of our long lasting society.

No doubt that there is an impact of print and electronic media on our generation. The elders in the society state that our generation has become a slave of Western culture. Some of the conformist minds go still further to stress that the Western culture takes our youth to a wrong destination.

In my opinion there is no reason for our elders to accuse the Western culture for the ills in our society. Every culture has its positive as well as negative charters. Our own Bangladeshi culture too has good and bad sides. Therefore whether it is Bangladeshi or Western culture, it is the duty of every individual to make ‘use’ of it and not to make ‘misuse’ of it. I do not agree with the opinion that the Western culture is ruining our youth.

This is so strange. The Western culture is responsible to a great extent for bringing about development and change on social, economic, educational, scientific, etc, fields thus helping humankind to move towards advancement.

We have seen that western cultural ethos has helped to remove superstitions, fallacies and disastrous acts from our culture.

Like our culture encouraged child marriages. At the time of birth the parents of children used to decide about their marriage. The boy or the girl had no option but to marry to the person chosen by the parents when they grow up. There was no opportunity for the boy or the girl to choose their own life-partners as per their wish. The British Government introduced a law banning child marriages in the country. Now child marriage is not seen like earlier.

Now a day’s woman has equal or sometimes more than boy’s rights. Women can join in office. We all enjoy our national day with pan fare. So those are blessings from western we should learn good practice and avoid those are not necessary.