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De:	Henry Ekwuruke [ Profil ]
Sujet:	Culture in disarray
Envoyé:	Jun 10th, 2005 - 13:57:13

	In Nigeria, we are faced with so much challenges and cultural disarray is at its apex and the people are trying to survive with their old age cultures and traditions with the modern trends and christainity. Henry harpreet singh wrote: Well in India the greatest challenge is to the culture and languages, like Sanskrit and Urdu have almost died, and more languages and scripts are just vanishing since the use of English is becoming status symbol and parameter of intelligence, hence is has also effecting art and basic cultures, I always believed that all languages and cultures are unique and have beauty of its own and not be compared, as for me my mother tongue - Punjabi is supreme though I dont use it much but I try to speak and express in Punjabi, and as an artist also i have explored that Indian culture is really creative and in sink with nature, The kids in school speak English from class one but I think they need to learn expression in there mother tongue first as it has been proved that children learn better/fast in their mother tongue. Now we have a class of people who can speak English and those who cant, and then people like me who are concerned but helpless. Harpreet Singh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thank you for your contribution, and the difference you make in the world. The Youth Out Loud! staff at the Youth Empowerment Alliance. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Powered By TIG Groups http://groups.takingitglobal.org/ Group Archives: http://groups.takingitglobal.org/youthoutloud To unsubscribe, email youthoutloud-unsubscribe (at) groups.takingitglobal.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com