Can indians going more towards western culture and forgetting our Indian culture?

Answer 1

There is nothing wrong in being Westernized as long as the GOOD aspects of Indian culture are retained. This is an individual choice and cannot be forced.

Answer 2

Are you speaking of Indians from India or what some call Native Americans? I am Indian. An indigenous person from the USA. If that is what you speak of I will answer, if not, oh well.
Last night we had our winter solstice. "The Dance". We honor the Creator for every living thing. We respect Mother Nature and all that has been provided. My anscestors and my tribe now are people of prayer and thanksgiving. Our Headman explained our Creation story. We have a Trinity. The Godhead that lived in the House of Knowledge. Over the years my people have concluded that this is the same trinity in the Bible. Our Baby Thunder or "Daylight" was given a name at the appropriate time and that name is Jesus.
I had two daughters dancing in the ceremony. We danced and prayed until 3:30am. I understand now how and why I believe and always have believed in a Creator. The deer is very sacred in our culture. We pray before a hunt. Every thing that is ever killed is eaten. Every part of the deer is utilized. The hooves are even used to make gambling rattles. Words cannot describe the beauty of "The Dance". The smell of the smoke, the sound of shells, the basket caps, the head dresses, the men carrying obsidian blades, quivers, arrows and two edged swords, the feathers. My people have been celebrating and thanking The Creator from the beginning of time. We will always do this. We have incorporated this life with the life of modern times. I thought of people on this site and offered a prayer for all. I realized how truly blessed I have been to be a part of such a wonderful tribe. Happy New Year and Peace out.

Answer 3

Let me put your question this ways....are the Indians going more towards western culture ad forgetting our Indian culture?

Yes, and particularly the youth. We in the east also have different cultures you can't generalise the tern Culture as Eastern or western. If you look around your self the overall human society is getting materialistic day after day and getting weak spiritually and morally . People spend more on their own luxuries than charity, arranged marriages are replaced by love-marriages
and further young men and women now a days preferring to live as partners inst ed of marring and living as wife and husband. premarital sex is becoming more common. respect of parents and other elders is disappearing. The youth today is int rested only in getting rich by hook or crook. frauds and cheating has become a daily routine. Night clubs, pubs and parties where people drink and women expose is getting the usual part of live. gay ism and lesbianism is creeping in the society. people are talking to give it a legal status. being single mothers is no more a shame.

We can not blame it to western society for this, though it originated and crept there first , Over-all human beings are setting new standards for themselves throughout the nooks and corners of the world.

Answer 4

No one can stand still. To move toward western culture and retain the old ways is an uphill battle at best. The pull of western culture is very strong and it is also a dead end for anyone of spirit regardless of race, creed or color.

It is a material world of no spirits except alcohol, drugs and gambling; to which to many of the people have already been subjected. My stock is from Europe but my heart cries for what we have all taken from the bowl that the great spirit handed us. It is broken past our repair.

Any man is lost without his history. Cull but the best from the west and let that be little. For thousands of years the great spirit made His dwelling place in tents of flesh. He has not changed His preference to this day.

Answer 5

Well ; not totally . But I think Indians should take on good values from other Cultures, be it Western /Oriental or whatever . Many of the Western Things we are copying/imbibing are not so good. But Western Culture has many positive things to offer also .

Answer 6

I have been in Canada for years now and still consider myself an Indian. We celebrate all festivals and cherish the same values. We can go out of India but India will never be out of us.
If you chop the roots, the tree will die.
We have been around for 10K years and more. Don't see us fading away. Trust the future generations. They will keep the flag flying. Indians have always adapted to change, since the beginning of time. If you do not adapt, you become extinct, like the dinosaurs and the Babylonians and the Greeks.

Answer 7

As the world gets smaller because of the ease of travel and the consequence of the Internet and international work it is only natural for cultures to change. It is the evolution of the way of the world..........but don't worry too much about this evolution.....the Indian culture is strong and it will (or at least the best parts) survive and flourish.

Answer 8

I think you are confusing 'culture' with 'tradition'. Culture is a collective mindset of a people belonging to a time and place. The culture of teenagers of St.Xaviers mumbai, will not be the same as those in Patkar college, and may be the same as LSR, Delhi. My point is that it changes with time, and with external influences. These influences could be western (as they have been for a long time). India was a progressive technology-adopting culture in the 9th to 13th centuries AD. People came here to learn about the newest things in Life. Generations later people became degenerate, and protective of 'tradition' and 'identity'. The best part of our urban youth is that they have their own independent identity - one that is comfortable with the 'free mind' of the west as well as the discipline of the east. And it is not cool to Jhaado english everywhere. It is cool to talk Punjaabi or Mumbaiyya Bhasha.

Answer 9

Not at all.
Because most Indians still marry Indians only.

Answer 10

A lot of Indians are still loyal to the Indian tradition.