Quote from: jaibster on October 08, 2017, 12:31:47 AM

Culture and traditions define who we are, they make us distinct from others communities. Lately people are becoming more distant from their culture. People all over the seem to be adopting same lifestyle. I think westernization would be more suitable then modernization. People all over the world are adopting western culture.

Yes, westernization may be more accurate. And it's true that western culture has a lot of flaws like disregard for the environment, excessive materialism, etc. In that sense I agree that maintaining cultural diversity is beneficial. Sort of a way to experiment with the different ways people can live in a modern world and then hopefully have them learn from each other and improve.

Where some in this thread lose me is in the "shouldn't mix with others", "mixing harms the culture" and your "cultures and traditions define who we are". I'm not saying we should forget about cultures and traditions, but rather we should keep in mind that they can't be immutable and still be useful.