{"id":51924,"date":"2015-01-26T22:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=51924"},"modified":"2015-01-26T22:59:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:59:34","slug":"cultural-sharing-or-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2015\/01\/26\/cultural-sharing-or-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural sharing or exchange?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ikram Ali Barkat<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

People live in different parts of the globe having different cultures and traditions. People from one part of globe are eager to know about culture and tradition of other part, most of the time. The development of materialistic world and cultural development both are moving in parallel in\u00a0today’s world. To be\u00a0dominant\u00a0in all aspects\u00a0most\u00a0of the dominant developed countries offer various cultural exchange programs. It would not be pessimistic to view these exchange programs in a sense that cultures of developed countries are dominating and the developing and under developing countries are adopting the dominant cultures rapidly. its good sign that people are accepting other cultures and adopting them.<\/p>\n

This exchange of cultures is beneficial for the developed countries, as well as the developing ones. More benefit goes to the industrialized countries\u00a0but \u00a0it puts a positive impact on both economies; due to this acceptance of multiple culture people tend to move towards variety of commodities to improve their life standards, hence enabling economic growth. In fact, this the capitalist model.\u00a0It\u00a0is a fashion as well nowadays \u00a0that in developing countries people are adopting and copying the living styles\u00a0of people in the advanced or industrialized countries.<\/p>\n

It is good for the economies but on other side the less industrialized countries\u00a0are losing their uniqueness by adopting a dominant culture or an imported culture.<\/p>\n

The questions that arise in my mind are, should we adopt the dominant cultures? \u00a0Should \u00a0we support this unification agenda? Should we support the exchange programs? Or should we preserve our own culture? Can we share our cultures in the sense to be connected across the boundaries with other people and to be familiar with multiple cultures?<\/p>\n

It is good to know about other cultures should we share\u00a0or exchange?<\/p>\n

On one hand there is unification, variety, better, urbanized,\u00a0standards of life but on other hand there is uniqueness, our own unique life style with traditional commodities.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0am still waiting for the answer to this question myself and eager to learn your views also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ikram Ali Barkat People live in different parts of the globe having different cultures and traditions. People from one part of globe are eager to know about culture and tradition of other part, most of the time. The development of materialistic world and cultural development both are moving in parallel in\u00a0today’s world. To be\u00a0dominant\u00a0in all …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs-op-ed"],"better_featured_image":{"id":51925,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":612,"height":816,"file":"2015\/01\/Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange-338x450.jpg","width":338,"height":450,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange.jpg?fit=338%2C450&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange-600x800.jpg","width":600,"height":800,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange.jpg?fit=600%2C800&ssl=1"},"150x150":{"file":"Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange-150x150.jpg"},"120x85":{"file":"Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange-120x85.jpg","width":120,"height":85,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange-120x85.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange-415x260.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":"","orientation":1}},"post":51924,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Culture-sharing-Vs-Culture-Exchange.jpg?fit=612%2C816&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51926,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51924\/revisions\/51926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}