The visitors should adopt and take up the customs and traditions of the country they are visiting, while others feel that, safeguarding the right of the visitors to a country, to practice their customs is the duty of the host Country.

The visitors shouldadopt and take up the customs and traditions of the country they are visiting,while others feel that, safeguarding the right of the visitors to a country, topractice their customs is the duty of the host Country. Discuss and give your opinion in not less than 250 words, with relevant examples from your expeirence. 

Ielts Essay - Should Visitors Adopt local customs 

Today, when the world is fast transforming into a a global village, there is a strange agenda doing rounds among the moral Police, which feels that foreigners should follow local customs of the place they visit, while others regard this as a bias and think that the cultural diversity should be respected by the hosts.

With the World becoming a smaller place, intermingling and interaction among the people is on the rise. The visitors visit a foreign destination for leisure, cultural exchange and Business, and to experience Traditions and heritage of host nations. They cannot be expected to adopt the beliefs and ways of life of the natives and discard their own values for the sake of visiting. Such a cultural bias always poses a hostile view, which in turn, adversely affects the Visitor’s inflow. Even the immigrating people are free to continue with their traditions and cannot be forced to follow the local ways.

Besides this, in age of globalization, none can afford isolation and impress the Ghetto attitude, as this exposes the fanaticism of the native society, which adversely affect the communication between people. Moreover it is a fundamental human right to practice own legal traditions. The onus of ensuring this right lies on the Government and the community.

However, in some parts of the orthodox world, especially in the middle-east, where the western ways of life are totally incompatible, the western mannerism is sometimes too disturbing and way out of the imagination of the local populace, e.g. revealing clothes, kissing in public turns out to be insulting, which should be duly respected by the people visiting that part of world.

Overall, I personally feel that it is imperative that cultural diversity of the travelers be respected and duly safeguarded by the host country. Therefore, I concur with this notion.