Eastern
people or the right wing nationalist parties in most South Asian countries
perceive Western culture as a kind of decadence, something that pollutes
their culture.
What they
don’t understand is that western culture (popularly associated with
America) is a culture of convenience and comfort. Westerner invariably come out
with things and ideas that are very useful for every aspect of modern life and
hence are easily assimilated by people worldwide than anything that these
easterner conventional people can come up or try to stick to. Obviously the conventional
puritan people of East have no ability to come out with more attractive or
convenient things so they just, out of guilt symbolically reject few western things?
Also, why
these right wing puritans are selective in their rejection? Right from the
first thing used by them in the morning - the toothbrush to every other thing
used by them throughout the day is mostly invented by these westerns to make
modern life easier and yet they take some ‘symbolic’ things like pubs and
movies and songs and Valentine Day and the idea of absolute freedom as
polluting and try to vent their guilty fury at it?
Why don’t
they learn? Contrary to evolutionary creed explained by Darwin they stubbornly refuse
to adapt to evolving cultures. I mean even if you are believer and creationist
you can still guess that humanity due to its mental capability is destined or
doomed to keep on progressing no matter what so why not aid it constructively than
fight it foolishly?
Again
taking about Darwin’s theory (can’t escape this grand old man) let people
choose to do what they want to do and let the survival of fittest theory
prevail in cultures too. Even the dandy English Hat went out of fashion since
it was not convenient so does Hippy movement and drugs and free sex of sixties.
More things will phase out even the idea of ‘convenience’. Don’t worry, if
chastity belt, al-Qaida, blowing up people in name of religion and religion
itself is convenient it will prevail and jeans, noodle strap, valentine's day,
right of abortion and idea of happiness will fade if it’s not convenient, but
let it happen by itself don’t force it.
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These controversies are to gain attention.
Badway to attend attention though, they limit themselves to the select few who would agree to them.
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