Is our Culture Polluted?

ahamednishadh

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    well according to what i think our culture is polluted upto a certain level only.

    well i mean in good old days (i refer to around 10 yrs back) we never had models posing in bikinis in public or models comming in da playboy mags and stuff. but nw wat has happened??? there r so many females who go in the road almost half naked!!! if they call wearing short skirts and mini t-shirts is modernisation or development then wat da hell do u guys think abt dubai or saudi??? they are also developed cuntires but u never or rarely will see a female citizen of dat county posing nude fr playboy or reveling da whole body except for da private parts. y didnt this happen in those cuntries is that there wasnt a community that wanted to copy others. in sri lanka wat happens is dat if sumone is doing it then i also have to do it attitude. its not only in ppl but also in rganisations. we sri lankans started to copy the western culture which is k for them but not for us. western countries populated their culture in our country so that they can earn money. wat actually happens in sri lanka is this. foreign companies get sri lankan companies to make their garments which they import to their country and then send it back to our country fr sale as export quality goods and will have a price tag of aroun 5 times of da original price. and this ppl go and buy. a good example is wat we can c at house of fashion during new year and xmas seasons were people even tend t stay in long ques t get into the shop coz they think dat buying a cloth frm there is more worth than buying it in a normal place which sells da same cloth for a lower price.

    the other thing is obviously no man will lyk his wife to be exposed to another person or to the public ryt?? im sure no one in EK wants a wife who is not a virgin unless da virginity has been taken off by him. well its kind of the same case. by showing off ur body to the public ppl start fantasying abt u. a god example are sum threads lyk da hot sri lankan actors and da bollywood galleries where i have seen sum ppl asking da posters to post more of a girl who has a pic being half naked.

    wat i want to ask these ppl is y da F do u want t c these??? isnt ur mother or sister also a female and she also has da same stuff ryt?? how da hell do u watch these porn stuff and all??? im sure wen u guys marry and if even u hear a rumour saying ur wife has slept with another person then u get mad at her but if u sleep wit another girl then its no problem. wats da damn difference?? u r obviously sleeping wit another persons wife ryt?? then y cant ur wife have da same ryt??


    all in all our culture is a total mess!!!
     

    earthling

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    i agree too buddy, although they say west is good cos they dont hide things its not the healthiest thing for a society. i believe whatever is here currently as traditions had a reason to start.

    blindly accepting everything is same as blindly following everything i think.we already can see the cracks in those western societies.

    and even those who say they can accept anything will have there limits. ie: one who goes to the point of saying kissing is good will have his line a if it goes bit further, ex:he might react "old fashioned" way if he sees couple having sex publicly when he goes with his children..

    just my 2 cents..;)

    agree with u...comparing the divorce rates in the western countries & sri lanka... r cultural aspects hav helped somewhat too I think
     

    x-pert

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    Agree to some degree bt not all..

    In th points of kissing in public & kids watching porn movies are 2 different things..

    You watch porn movies in private & it involves either only you, you & your partner or a couple of friends in the worst case scenario right ?... bt kissing in public is different because it involves the entire bloody public which includes little kids, parents, elderly, clergy, ect. in fact anyone who is around at that time..

    machang what ever said & done..we still have healthy respect for our parents, elders & the clergy... thats why we dont swear infront of them, smoke infront of them & sertainly wont kiss infront of them.. in sinhalese we say 'thama lajja baya thiyenawa'...

    If I'm in a theater watching a movie or a in a bus with my parents, my little niece or cousin or my grandparents & if I see a couple kissing or behaving in a vulgar manner I get really uncomfortable..I bet the elders who are with me are feeling the same thing...and if a mother is with her kid & saw this kind of thing..she gets in to a totally difficult situation..

    teens should know how to behave in public..if they behave inappropriately in public (specially in buses & theaters ) they should know that by doing that they put others in difficult positions as well as create a bad impression upon themselves..specially the girl...

    so as I said in my previous post.. we should take what ever that needs to be taken from the western culture..bt we should also know when to stop & draw the line..going over board doesnt help I think....

    That's why I said it's just like a sword bro :D

    BTW, in western countries, a kiss is not a sexual symbol IMO. It's a symbol of love.

    But in 3rd world countries like India, Sri Lanka, we believe a kiss as a sexual act / symbol.

    So that's why we see that as a bad thing. :D

    (Another matter of perspective)

    Respect your view though!
     

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    sudunone

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    Culture does not get "polluted"; only evolved, adjusted or mixed with other cultures.

    Why I say so? Rev.Mahinda came nearly 2000 years back; if one just consider female dress, in Kashyapa's era, high class women didn't cover top while low women did but by the time westerners came, low caste people didn't cover top while the high class women wore Kandiyan saree. (Which probably has some influence of Indian dress) We don't consider this to be 'pollution'. Likewise, habits, customs, language etc. have changed, borrowed parts from other cultures according to the needs of the society at the time.

    The reasons for this continuos change are the necessity of the society at each period, influence of other cultures due to foriegn invasion, movies/television, change in belief/attitude etc. For example, during the times of war, in many countries women do all the farming and manual labour, driving and using heavy machinery, which they wouldn't have done if the men were there at home. Partly due to high Indian influence in teledramas and movies, we wear more Indian dresses now.

    Solution? There's no solution. The culture must change and evolve. Otherwise people who stick to the old fashions become unsuitable to face the new world.

     

    earthling

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    no culture in the world today is pure..if there is one..pls show me..

    many influences seep through the time..some good & some bad... so any culture adopt with time...or it will die...
     

    rash87

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    Wel let me define my self the culture for the answrs f ma slf um gonna brng out.
    Culture is not somethng which can b defined easily as what is a mobile phone o ne object for that matter.
    Basically culture is everythng, t can b a religon, t can b a fashion, a trend, a practice, t jus cud b nethng, bt culture dus hv certain qualities, like t's DYNAMIC, EVOLVING al the time n t z transmittable. Wel I dun thnk I hv brought out a clear definition for culture bt as I hv mentioned certain boundries of t, tho boundries of culture cud extend 2 infinity.

    Wel no, wethr d culture is poluted, wel yes no both. Bcuz 4 d simple fact dat term polluted z so relative. Pollution z simply can b termed as adding o mixing in resulting the quality of the original been changed. So in dat sense even adding sugar to a tea z also some kind f polluting. N in this instance, as I said earlier, culture iz something which is evolving n dynamic, is meant 2 b changed. So some may say that the culture is polluted bt some may say t z been updated which d latter I wud say z mo suitable. Nuthng in dis wrld meant 2 b go on 4ever without undergoing ne changs.
    Wel as d wrld chngs, as d wrld progresses, cuture in Sri Lanka believed 2 b prevailed way back, has deviated from t's origin point.N as wel as T has been some bad aspects,dere are gud aspects too.So I wud nt go wit d wrd tht d culture is polluted tho, d new direction t z running 2 might just b lung away frm wht t's used 2 b for a Sri Lankan,50 years back :D


    I think I hv sufficiently answred this question too in d previous paras :D

    Wel I dun knw like wethr a solution z required cuz 2 my understandin thr zn't a problem, bt as I said, for someone hu stl luk at Sri Lanka like he o she did 50 years back, might feel dat solutions has 2 b given immideatly. Bt I wud like 2 say tho as 2 protect buddhism n some f d practices whr our ancient Sinhaleese had in villages wit the language, some laws has 2 b imposed n regulations on media as media z d one which z getting 2 Sri Lankans fast. The simple reason I wud say that dose thngs tht I mentioned has 2 b protected is because t z really wht z left of Sri Lankan identity tht really distinguishes frm othrs of the wrld, bt nt because t z d so cald true Sri Lankan characteristics.:)
     

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    Culture does not get "polluted"; only evolved, adjusted or mixed with other cultures.

    Why I say so? Rev.Mahinda came nearly 2000 years back; if one just consider female dress, in Kashyapa's era, high class women didn't cover top while low women did but by the time westerners came, low caste people didn't cover top while the high class women wore Kandiyan saree. (Which probably has some influence of Indian dress) We don't consider this to be 'pollution'. Likewise, habits, customs, language etc. have changed, borrowed parts from other cultures according to the needs of the society at the time.

    The reasons for this continuos change are the necessity of the society at each period, influence of other cultures due to foriegn invasion, movies/television, change in belief/attitude etc. For example, during the times of war, in many countries women do all the farming and manual labour, driving and using heavy machinery, which they wouldn't have done if the men were there at home. Partly due to high Indian influence in teledramas and movies, we wear more Indian dresses now.

    Solution? There's no solution. The culture must change and evolve. Otherwise people who stick to the old fashions become unsuitable to face the new world.


    Nicely said, especially abt no solution z required as dere z no problem :D
    Bt wud like 2 raise a question wether as Sri Lankans du we need 2 hv our own identity with the culture n du v hv one right nw with d newly evolved one? :D
     

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    Western culture Eka copy nokaranathak kal Lankawe culture Ekata kisima haniyak wenney naha...
    but dan A'ka wenas wenna patan aran.. A'kata pradanama Heythuwa culture ekaka base Eka wana Aagama Adahana Pramanaya Aduwena Ekai.. Aagama kiyana dey Sahalluwen Hithana Ekai...
     

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    Polluted ?? well I think it is. But it is NOT due to the western influences, or at least not the way most people claim it to be.

    I think some of the values Sri Lankans hold dear are in reality not that important. Trivial things like women wearing short skirts or sex before marriage are not the real problems we have. The biggest problem in Sri Lanka is the lack of discipline and respect to one another. Everyone is trying to get ahead at any cost, no one follows rules, no one can be trusted, everything is chaos. This is the real problem... These kind of attitudes cannot be blamed on western cultural influences, because people in developed countries don't act this way.
     

    twisted

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    i was under the impression that ppl were polluted not culture ..culture is preserved and being preserved even ppl pretend to take part in it but they are just lost. and then we can't stick to one culture...world is becoming a single place..as ppl are mingling together cultures are taking the same path..more suitable culture to ppls thinking is surviving, adding up influences from other cultures to it. sooner or later there won't really be an "our culture". besides this one culture for the entire world is not a bad thing.
     

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    That's why I said it's just like a sword bro :D

    BTW, in western countries, a kiss is not a sexual symbol IMO. It's a symbol of love.

    But in 3rd world countries like India, Sri Lanka, we believe a kiss as a sexual act / symbol.

    So that's why we see that as a bad thing. :D

    (Another matter of perspective)

    Respect your view though!

    I like how you think, respect.
     

    sankku

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    100% AGREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    Can anybody tell me what is Sri Lankan culture now?

    For me, the SL culture is:
    People don't have a right to wear anything they want, people don't have the right to worship the religion they want, attitudes suck to the max within the community, a girl can't go in a crowded bus without getting abused at all, a woman cannot go alone in the night, We do have kawum kokis mun aluwa for the aurudda. But have no peace of mind to eat them with all the parties in the community. People can't love the person they want. A couple cannot stay alone in a room, A loving couple cannot kiss on the road if they want.

    All about attitude and attitude comes with the culture!

    Culture is not corrupted. But has evolved a bit... we don't wear tree leaves anymore, we don't eat BBQs all the time. So it is evolved a bit from the weddas age.

    But still I would like our culture evolved a bit more...

    @ Neon > Personally I don't see anything bad about kissing in public. As Asians we don't talk about sex in public. But hey.. look around! Every small ass kid in SL even before 16 yrs of age watch all the porn movies nowadays.... Helloo... People do everything mate,.... But the difference is in Western countries they do it in an open manner. That's why you can't cheat in western world for long. But in Sri Lanka because people don't go out in public, married men can have 100s of affair in secret.

    It's just a two edged blade :)


    ELAMA KIRI....ATTHE THITHTHAI
     

    wisal

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    Well bros I need to give this thread another angle. Please some 1 tel me the different bi tween culture and nature! and i will come to the stage then! If i do not answer please PM me coz I am roaming.
     

    SHARINGAN

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    still sri lankan culture is in good situation. but not in colombo. colombo and in some main cities it is polluted.

    reasons open economy. there are good things and bad things. some bad parts badly affected to our culture.

    solution ??? i dont think. we cant change the world. everything is changing so as well as culture. thet is the reality.

    ps :: someone can ask what is culture ??? i dont know how to explain it. but if you born and grown in sl you know it..your heart can feel it.