Western Influence is destroying Indian Culture

The older generation are referred to as the past, little realising that there is no future without a past. The younger generation wants freedom without any responsibility alongwith it. Technological development is essential for India today. This is where the growth, rearing up and breeding of individuals in this country develops. The attainment of worldly possessions overriding morals, scruples, ethics and virtues will bring about the ruination of man. Slowly this concept is being eroded by the western principles of materialism. We need wealth to make our lives comfortable and to improve our quality of living, but at the same time we must remember that in the process of acquiring the above, we must never lose our power of distinguishing right from wrong, good from evil, and must allow the ecclesiastical to rule over the material. They have no time to meet their fellow brethren, but they have time to visit their psychiatrists in search of mental peace and satisfaction. From the west some people come to India and head for the Himalayas in search of spiritual gurus to attain solace.

As yet Indian culture has held its own, but the western influence of materialism is destorting the fabric of our culture which is spiritualism. The western influence of materialism seems to have infiltrated into our family system, specially in the urban areas. A generation gap is often mentioned by the younger generation while referring to the older generation. They do not realise that the older generation are a generation ahead. Now people are so engrossed in making money that all else is secondary.