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.
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| 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.
