Some people think that cultural traditions may be destroyed when they are used as money-making attractions aimed at tourists. Others believe it is the only way to save these traditions. Discuss on both sides and give your opinion.

Some people think that cultural traditions may be destroyed when they are used as money-making attractions aimed at tourists. Others believe it is the only way to save these traditions. Discuss on both sides and give your opinion.

Ielts Essay - Cultural Exhibition

Exploiting culture commercially to lure alien travelers is derogatory and a recipe to disaster as per conservatives, for local ways of life. However, this view is not supported by the progressives who view this as the only the way to preserve native identity in the current world order.    

The purist view treats such attempts with indignation, and professes that traditions are the foundations on which societies evolve and prosper. Although they were practiced diligently in older times in their undiluted forms,  today they are being used as mere facades of the society for the tourists, by those masquerading as preservers, and are being largely modified to make them comprehensible for the aliens. This is diluting the beliefs and blurring the difference between authentic and contrived details, denting the beauty and completely altering the reason and rationale behind them.

Nevertheless, the latter view puts forth the argument that in an era when the onslaught of globalization coupled with proliferation of dominant cultures is becoming more prominent,  and especially when the young generation is overwhelmingly influenced by such changes, the only way for beliefs, endemic to a region, to survive and to be perpetuated is by remaining visible. This can only be done if more and more people across the world are brought face to face with the indigenous customs, and the money earned out of such endeavors can be used to improve the living standards of those engaged in presenting those values in front of leisure travelers. 

Overall, even though opinion of traditionalists may hold some water since they wish to preserve the local customs in their original glory, in the current era this might not hold substance: the constant push by global identity and dominant societies might obliterate those practices and settings that forbid exhibition.