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"A cultural genocide is taking place in Iran..." Full Story It's not only Iran where such a U-turn is occuring, and it's not only the culture that is changing. The economy is bypassing the borders, and shapes the communities disregarding nations. Everything will be affected by this global change: Nutritional diets, fashions, entertainments, matrimony lives, and more (Read this). Where the economic considerations are playing the key role in almost every country, traditions will be initially forced aside just because they are too costy to be preserved, and then just after a generation or two, they'll look like alien habits. In spite of the scary outline, I'm quite optimistic about it: One big problem regarding the traditions is they initially have been established on a logical reason, but after several generations people will still keep the traditions on without thinking of those reasons, and even worse, keep insisting on them when the reasons are no longer valid (A good example is necktie; I doubt 1 out of 10 people really know where the idea of necktie has come from). This will raise some kind of rebel against the tradition, occasionally resulting in the tradition being abandoned. At this stage, if the lack of traditions causes any trouble for the community, people may return to the old habits, possibly an improved form of them. This "trial and error" will lead to an optimized social/global behavior, and the worst thing to do is to block the progress. Those who stick to old traditions like a glue make rarely understand that it will not only weaken the support from the society, but also prevents the traditions from improvement. Fortunately, the pressure of society is beyond the banning power, even if it is the state. To have a better life, the need for experiencing new things is unavoidable, and so is the price we have to pay for it: lives. "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Posted @ 1/21/2004 04:38:00 PM ______________________________________________
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