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Debbie
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Maintaining Cultural Diversity
September 29, 2005 - 08:13 AM
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In a time of intensive globalisation, one must start to wonder whether certain cultures have managed to maintain themselves or whether they have all got swept into a melting pot. I personally feel that it is important to maintain the cultural diversity that we were blessed with from the beginning, and it is rather disheartening to see many people being intoxicated with pop culture and thus forgetting their roots. I'm not saying that this is typical of what's going on throughout the world, but it is certainly a phenomenon that seems to be gathering speed.
It is perhaps naive to believe that cultural diversity will be able to stand up to the strengths of globalisation, seeing as how the latter is a vital process of establishing useful and peaceful relations between countries. Nevertheless, is there a way to maintain our own identity in a world that is shrinking?
In a country such as my own (Singapore), we never really had that much of a distinct culture of our own. We are a young country and our influences come from a variety of different races, since we are a multi-racial society. Also due to our size or lack thereof, it has been far too easy to ignore our roots and take to what has been perpetrated in the media. Does any country out there have any such problem?
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