Re-acquaintance: The Western Culture, the Indian Style

India has always been under the influence of foreign nations. This could be meant in the literal sense from the time of independence, to a more superficial sense today, when India’s generation next is influenced by the way they dress, their lifestyle, or even their appreciation for more diverse cuisine.

The youth is of course highly influenced by the foreign culture. But by what are they influenced exactly?

If one is to look at the surface of it, the clothes, the music and the food is what one would notice. The dressing sense is getting more and more westernized. The music has gone from Bollywood music, to exploring rap, jazz, hip-hop and pop. Food is one of the older influences that countries have on each other. India serves food from Italy, Thailand, Mexico, China, and so many more countries. On a global perspective, Indian culture seems to have left a mark on other countries too. They’ve got out spices, yoga, and cuisine. Even Indian dances have become very popular abroad! Sports and entertainment too have always played a pivotal role in this globalised India.

A development however, is that through the Indian culture spreading rapidly in foreign countries, the youth is getting re-acquainted with these Indian ways. Is that really the ideal way to get through to the youth? No. Is it the worst way? Definitely not! In fact, it’s probably the most efficient way to get them to get back in touch with what they seem to have forgotten. More and more people are turning to Indian cuisine, because it’s been now known to have all the nutrients on the food pyramid. They are looking to take up Indian dance and music, because the rhythms are actually known to be healthy. These changes would not have come about with parents and grandparents trying to keep children aware of their roots. If they are under the foreign influence, and the foreign influence now means, just Indian culture with a wee bit of a foreign touch, it’s completely healthy. And the only foreign influence that comes to the more sensible youth is a kind of smartness in their approach to career and lifestyle, and this change is in good taste.

This shadow of foreign culture has a cons list too, but the pace at which the world is progressing; the cons can be sidelined at the moment. What one needs to ensure is that the pros are altered to a more Indian touch.

All in all, globalization in any form is only a plus point!

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