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Sunday, August 7, 2011

All Is Not Well With Modern Lifestyle

Hominids, the early humans understood only one thing, survival of the fittest. From the beginning of civilization humans came to know the difference between good and bad, started making coins and added value to products. Society made steady progress and tryst for a luxurious lifestyle made life complex.

Moving on to the new trend of life style humans want to live more luxuriously and lavishly. Due to this society is now divided into two classes. One class is getting or taking all the opportunities and the other is suffering. The word new trend means going to mall, five star hotels, spending nights in club etc. Going to malls or somewhere else and spending lots of money is fashionable. This mall culture came to our mind from British people itself. We the people of India try to copy all the western cultures forgetting about our own heritage. Whatever the western culture, good or bad, we try to adopt that. Due to globalisation this western tradition has occupied a pivotal position. In this new lifestyle everyone wants to live like a king which is not possible. If we go back a few centuries we will observe that this class division had its existence but the gap between them was narrow. With passage of time this gap has widened a lot creating tension between every societal group. This culture has a great impact on young generation of 21st century. They want to go to malls, expensive cafés, buy branded clothes and accessories etc. They take pride in saying that their clothes, shoes, ornaments, cars etc cost a fortune. They flaunt mainly to those people who do not have that much money to buy it and compare things with people who maintain the same standards. This kind of nature in a youngster results into poor friendship and the one who cannot compare himself or herself with the trend feel bad about his or her condition and get depressed. If these things tend to grow into one’s life he or she may even commit suicide or become psychological patient. Western culture has made people think materialistically. The economical differences between two groups are perpetually growing. There is increasing friction in almost all societal groups resulting in societal evolution. Society is changing round the clock.

 
We created money for our own use but now money is using us. Globalisation has caused money value to go down leading to inflation. Due to inflation cost of all goods are rising which is even more creating the gap .New lifestyle is better than previous times but forgetting our own culture and inheriting things western blindly is not good. Living standards of many people have increased but for the poor there is no help, they are living a life which is going on from bad to worse. They get suffocated by trends. People are simple and they want to live simple life but this western culture is making humans complex day by day. Nowadays people think money is everything, money is life and they tend to run after money sacrificing their life which is more important .Money is a paper note but its valuation is more than a human being. New lifestyle is awesome for those who have money but those who do not have it suffer the most. This lifestyle has turned humans into machines and nothing more than that. Globalisation, adaptation of western culture is the root cause for the economic disequilibrium between different groups.

About the Author

Nilika Banerjee is student of Journalism & Mass Communication at Rani Birla Girl's College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and they do not reflect in any way those of the Dispassionate Observer.

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