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| CONTENTS:- The Making of a Culture: Dynamics of the Early Years; The Era of Integration; The Culture Shift Era. Boundaries Exposed: Corning Out of Isolation; The Diffusion from the South; The Accelerator of the Culture Shift; The Opening of Shangri-La; The Nepalese Global Village; The Receiving End of Culture. Identity at stake: Emerging Ethnic Awakening; Aspirations for Identity; The Melting Pots; The Weakening Divide; Diversity at Risk. A Hierarchy Rejected: The Degraded Noble House; The Hierarchy of Money; The Carriers of Culture Change. Breakdown of the Family: Curtailing Kids; The Aged Abandoned; The Per Capita Culture. The Crumbling Heritage: Box: Institutions Ineffective; The Gods Exiled; The Plight of Polluted Waters; Modernization Interfering with Heritage; Fading Festivals; Box: Forgotten Calendars; Box: Unfastening Legends; The Upsurge Of Ugliness. Anarchic Architecture: Muzaffarpur In The Making; Architectural Invasions. A Different Entertainment: The House Arrest; The Hungama Culture; Rodighar Ruined; A New Cult in the Making; The New Escape for Entertainment. The Harbinger Of Change: The Forgotten Wisdom; The Credential Inflation; The Education Exodus; Deteriorating Moral Fiber; The Intellectual Apathy. The Linguistic Landscape: Crises in the Ethnic Languages; The Forgotten Language; Nepali Neglected; Intensifying English; The Hindi Hungama; Leaning Literature. The Development Drama: The All-Embracing Government; The Development Psyche; The Third Force. The Polluter of Culture: The Disillusionment Era; The Egalitarian Agenda; The Culture of Corruption. The Economic Nirvana: Changing Focus; Money Mania; Consuming the West; The Nepal Inc.; The Culture of Poverty; Occupational Shifts. Changing Manners: The Fast Lane; The Urban Indifference; Eating Chicken in a Hideout; The Slimming Society; The Fashion Frenzy. The Rhythm Interrupted: Sanskaras Skipped; Box: A Different First Alphabet; Box: Unhappy Birthday; The Thread No More; Marriages Mingled; The Forgotten Ancestors; The Declining Respect. The Confused Dreams: A Violent Voyage; Journey to Fantasy; Nothing to Do; Will You Be My Valentine?; Box: The Card Culture. Changing Work Ethic: The Besieged Bureauculture; Box: Is Performance Contagious?; Escape From Work; Sycophancy Shift; Of Human Bondage; The Work Politic. The Exit Of The Other Half: A Different Discrimination; Box: Beautifying Business; The Infamous Exodus; Box: The Attendants of Gods; A Different Ideal Woman. The Religious Laissez Faire: The Smaller God is the Looser; Hinduism in Peril; A Different Liberation; Vanishing Veneration; A Renaissance the Making; The Domain of the Old; May Lord Pashupatinath Protect All of Us ! |
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| Today, not even a backyard is spared from the intrusion of Westernization, modernization and globalization. But the cost to a culture in a tiny land-locked country like Nepal, where cultural identity and diversity has survived for ages, is becoming increasingly unbearable. Degrading family values, deteriorating moral capital, changing work and wealth ethic, crumbling heritage sites, disappearing interests in festivals, rituals and customs, exodus of youths abroad, weakening social hierarchy, linguistic distortions, passion for consumer goods and emergence of economic extremities have geared shifts in the Nepalese culture. People are experiencing "culture shock" from within. The social, political, economic and cultural upheaval is becoming increasingly difficult to cope with. New values systems, beliefs, and attitudes are emerging. With new crises of identity and emerging politics of nationalism and ethnicity, the Nepalese people are reinventing their own culture. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nepalese culture cannot be simply defined by traditional reference points and landmarks. While the traditional dynamism such as Sanskritization and Indianization of the culture has not abated, it is becoming increasingly important to interpret the dynamism of the Nepalese culture in the context of Westernization, globalization and modernization. |
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