Tradition and Technology Balanced

             For most people, religion and science are two completely separate topics, but they can actually be similar by supporting each other. Alexander Stille's "The Ganges Next Life" is about a religious engineer named Veer Bhadra Mishra who wants to clean up the holy Ganges River with a modern process, which is to figure out that algae can help the river by killing the bacteria in it and therefore allow the people to be safe when they go in it. Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference" is based on the "power of context" that says every little thing matters because with all of them together they can tip the balance scale and make a difference. According to Gladwell's theory, setting up the algae in the river is the tipping point that can improve the river's conditions. Eric Schlosser's "Global Realization" is about the Westerners' consumerism, such as McDonalds, as a threat to the traditions of foreign nations because it erases tradition by presenting a modern food for consumers to eat instead of a healthy cultural one. Schlosser mentions "westernization" when dealing with consumerism to be bad for traditions, but Stille and Gladwell can prove it to actually work towards preserving them. Tradition and modernization should be used together to improve each other, since Gladwell mentions that everything good or bad is based on the surrounding, because no one can live without either of them, instead of separately, as in Schlosser and Stille's papers, which can cause problems that would diminish both of them, such as the fast food company overpowering tradition or tradition overpowering technology with the polluted Ganges River.
             Science and technology, which represent "westernization", can improve people's tradition instead of just obliterate them. However, Schlosser who views modernization to be the main cause of the lack of culture when it comes to consumerism, b...

More Essays:

APA     MLA     Chicago
Tradition and Technology Balanced. (1969, December 31). In MegaEssays.com. Retrieved 01:31, March 29, 2024, from https://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/2782.html