Demand of the question Introduction. Contextual Introduction. Body. Significance of celebrating cultural differences in India. Conclusion. Way forward. |
India is witnessing the rise of the hatred and crime like mob lynching and targeted harassment. It has caused abuse of the human rights and led to gross injustice to the weaker. There is need of a robust cultural programme to fight prejudices, encouraging inter-cultural understanding. Celebrating cultural differences is a way to achieve it. It means providing a venue where diverse perspectives, cultures and values are accepted, appreciated and celebrated.
Significance of celebrating cultural differences in India:
- The diversity celebration supports and enhances acceptance of responsibilities in actively involved in addressing the educational, economic, cultural, and societal needs of the changing region, state, nation, and world.
- It helps in recognition of humanity as the first step while celebrating our differences that inform us about our cultures, our values, and all our ways of being in the world.
- Celebrating differences lead to acknowledgement of differences leading better social justice.
- It gives knowledge about various sects and religion which is the key to tolerance.
- It is important to gain a new perspective on the lives of others around you as well as around the world.
- Cultural celebrations foster respect and open-mindedness for other cultures.
- Celebrating our differences, as well as our common interests, helps unite and educate us.
- It is important to understand other’s perspectives, to broaden our own, and to fully experience and educate ourselves.
- People all around need to understand and learn to appreciate other cultures, and this is one way to accomplish that.
- Through each other’s diversity, we become more aware of our own and gain a sense of pride for the diversity of our own culture.
- Understanding people and their backgrounds is crucial to personal and community growth.
- It’s energising and thought provoking. We live in such an isolated area that we don’t often reflect on the diverse people we have all around us.
- Unity in Diversity ethos needs to be preserved for the pluralistic character of the Indian nation state.
- It allow accommodation of multiple aspirations of a diverse population.
- It is important to reduce inequalities and foster development of all the sects of the society.
- It help people to overcome regional feelings and develop an attachment towards the nation can act as a long-term solution to the problem of sub-nationalism.
Schemes like “Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat” have been launched by the GOI to celebrate unity in diversity culture of the nation and to strengthen sentiment for national unity between the citizens of states, is a welcomed step. National unity is fostered if the people of a region have genuine pride in their language and culture. Mere tolerance doesn’t means acceptance, acceptance of other sects come through celebrating differences among different cultures.