well is westernisation of indian culture good or bad?(i have crtisied the west culture in my Q)?
in west sex is treated as a sport right from teens which u can have it with anyone ,anytime.. and marriages treated as a furniture which they can throw away any time and buy a new one... whereas in cultures like india,pakistan,srilanka,and some other conervative countries sex is considered sacred something meant for husband and wife... marragies also sacred and no divorces for silly reasons and couple work towards marraige.. wife,s and husbands are proud for the fact that they and thier partners were virgins when they got married... sadly though the globalisation is westerning certain sections of society .. the media etc are corrupting minds .. well is westernisation of indian culture good or bad?? @ash i really respect ur views .. not many 22 year old from west may think like that.. and yes even i have heard that few decades ago west was like what is india today and really doubt after few decades india will be what west is like.. hope we r able to maintain the culture but globalization media ,movies etc are making things change for bad..
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Answer by Ash W I think that Westernization in ANY culture is bad. The funny thing is (and people seam to forgets this) is that 2 generations ago such values as not having sex (or children outside of marriage) before getting married existed in Western culture. Now days, Western culture is an anti-culture that has been replaced with greed, lust and empty political correctness. Traditional values such as a white wedding, not having children outside of marriage,dressing modestly, women staying at home to do the cooking and cleaning while the men go to work, have all been eroded. I don't know many people of my generation (I'm 22) that know how to knit, croche, sew or cook biscuits and cakes from scratch . Many traditional crafts have been replaced with commercial products that have already been made.
Westerner have lost their identity and have nothing to be proud of. They have been corrupted by lust, greed and "civil rights". There was a reason why the seven deadly sins were dove loped. If it enters other cultures, it will do the same thing to them.
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The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), sometimes colloquially called "snowflake", is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is an arctic specialist, with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere. There are small isolated populations on a few high mountain tops south of the Arctic region, including the Cairngorms in central Scotland and the Saint Elias Mountains on the southern Alaska-Yukon border.
The breeding habitat is on tundra, treeless moors, and bare mountains. It is migratory, wintering a short distance further south in open habitats in northern temperate areas, typically on either sandy coasts, steppes, prairies, or low mountains, more rarely on farmland stubble. In winter, it forms mobile flocks.
It is fairly large and long-winged for a bunting, 15-18 cm long and with a wingspan of 32â€"38 cm, and weighing 26â€"50 g. In flight, it is easily identified by its large white wing patches. The breeding male is unmistakable, with all white plumage and a black back; the breeding female is grey-black where the male is solid black. In winter plumage, both sexes are mottled pale ginger, blackish and white above, and pale ginger and white below, with the males having more white than the females. The bill is yellow with a black tip, all black in summer males. Unlike most passerines, it has feathered tarsi, an adaptation to its harsh environment. No other passerine can winter as far north as this species apart from the Common Raven.
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Which of the following best describes the success of recent efforts to ban same-sex marriage?
A) The Senate has consistently voted for a constitutional ban, but the House has not. B) Congress has passed an amendment banning same-sex marriage, but it has not been ratified by the requisite number of states. C) Nearly all efforts to ban same-sex marriage have failed. D) Most Americans believe that the government should permit same-sex marriage. E) Several states have passed bans on same-sex marriage.
Inspired by comments from moviemaking luminaries such as Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader, former Premiere Magazine editor Peter Biskind set about chronicling the work of 1970s filmmakers in his 1999 book EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS. After the critical and commercial success of the exhaustive tome, it seemed only natural to transfer his fascinating tales to the screen, and the Trio channel duly obl
This 2-DVD set is Kenneth Bowser’s BBC-produced documentary of Peter Biskind’s controversial, best-selling book. It chronicles the evolution of a new breed of filmmaker who, in the late ’60s and ’70s, exploded old Hollywood, in the process redefining the very nature of movies. The results were edgy, impressionistic picturesâ€"The Godfather, Easy Rider, Mean Streets, Midnight Cowboy, Rosemary’s Baby, Taxi Driverâ€"by maverick, now-legendary directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Lucas, Altman, Polanski, Peckinpah.
In bringing the celebrated book to the screen, director Bowser employed some adventurous filmmaking of his own. Narrated by William H. Macy,
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
features vintage clips of the directors who defined the movement; original interviews with such directors as Arthur Penn and John Milius, actors such as Peter Fonda and Richard Dreyfus and more.
• Over 1.5 additional hours of deleted and extended footage. • Narrated by critically acclaimed actor William H. Macy.
• Features vintage clips of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Warren Beatty, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, and others. • Bonus disc offers "mini-docs" featuring Dennis Hopper, Richard Dreyfuss, Ellen Burstyn, Cybil Shepherd, Peter Bogdanovich, Paul Schrader, John Milius, Peter Bart and others. • Official Selection of Festival de Cannes 2003 and Deauville 2003 Festival du Cinema American.This BBC production is a companion to Peter Biskind's 1998 book by the same name, an excellent dish on the 1970s American movie scene. It roughly follows the same path, tracing how maverick filmmakers revitalized Hollywood, from Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider to the triumphant quartet of Coppola/Lucas/Spielberg/Scorsese. Any fan will want to listen in as nearly 50 actors and artists remember the day. However, the star meter is on low wattage, with today's most successful directors only talked about, and seen in often bemusingly vintage clips. The better-produced, higher-star-wattage A Decade Under the Influence covers much of the same ground. An on-screen Biskind would have helped matters, but he is nowhere to be seen. Yet there are moments from the book that come to life, be it grainy home movies from Jennifer Salt and Margot Kidder's notorious beach house or Roman Polanski's emotional press conference after the murder of his wife Sharon Tate. The DVD boasts a second disc of extended interviews on numerous subjects, many of which were not covered in the 119-minute film. --Doug Thomas
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HUGE poster outside of FRENCH MEADOW BAKERY CAFÉ in Concourse F, near Gate 3 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. This photo is inexcusable and reprehensible!
And THIS from an Organic Bakery?!!?!?? My JESUS CHRIST!!!
