Culture

Some first things u shud kno abt me... im an Indian.. and this concept of culture is a very ardent topic of discussion in the Indian scenario .....
People talk all the time about our Golden Culture and about how once upon a time we had a rich culture and today our culture is being spoilt by the youth and such crap.....lolz...But lemme tell ya 1 ting. Culture by itself was formed by a single or a group of persons, and according to them whatever dey felt was rite dey passed it down to their children...so in fact it is nothing but the ideals of someone that we are following... that is we are following thoughts of some random ancestor who suddenly decided that one day he would start something.... centuries later when another young individual decides to do something that has not been done by his parents, but has been done in some other country (unfortunately) he is classified as aping their culture and violating our culture that has been passed on to us for generations... but enough of the discussion on individualism...
i would like to pose a question to all dose so called protectors of our culture... why don't we still follow the ancient practices of child marriage and sati?? that is just basically because our Government forbids it... so at this point i would like to propose a definition of culture: it just is nothing but that which has been done by your parents in THEIR times and that which they expect us to follow in OUR times, all under the watchful supervision of a government that pretty much changes your culture the way it deems fit ....
but speaking as a matter of fact sati and child marriage were common in those times, women would be unable to live in a society without their husband in those times... but today the society is not so narrow minded anymore... in other words the whole world is changing so we cannot expect to get a hold on our so called culture... frankly ,  our Indian culture itself has been shaped and metamorphosed by events in history..... so culture by itself has no real shape and is pretty much shaped by us... so if we decide to change it rapidly to keep up with the west then that will become our culture not that which our parents have taught us... so to conclude and sum it up, culture has no real depth, but it is upto us whether to follow it or not, but we cannot hope to adopt something that is not ours without having the proper mindset that is required...
i really feel i should mention this probably offensive example...i have seen many girls wearing pretty revealing dresses but when guys look at them they start covering up...i don't really understand the point of it all... u see a chick on mtv wearing such an attire she is ready to flaunt herself off before the world and so she can wear it.... but if u do not have the guts to walk that way in public then you probably should not hope to wear the same revealing dresses... this is a proper mixup of not knowing what to do, not knowing which culture to follow... u wanna dress like an american, den u better be prepared to get a lot of ogles.... else u better get back to wearing what you are comfortable with.... in other words u can STICK to your culture....