Yesterday I read a very short article about turbun.
and also this is very short journal about that article.
I've never seriously thought about India, Sikh and their way of life etc. before read this article.Even I've never tried to connect korea with this. So how dare I say about this matter with just this information. Thus briefly I'm trying to compare their present and Korea's past. About 100years ago, Korea, at that time "Chosun", had a culture which have to preserve their hair. According to the confucianism, because their body was inherited by their parents, it was prohibited to injure their body or cut their hair thoughtlessly. herefore, Korean had to make their traditional hair style which called "sangtoo" just like present Sikh. Because of the effectuation of the revised enforcement regulations in 1895, at that time regulation was so epochal that the citizens couldn't accept that easily, they should cut their hair. That was not option, but duty, so some of people who thought that their hair is the same with their parents raised the riot against the regime. But it proceeded drastically by government because having a long hair causes many problems related with health. So I think, changing of culture is related with other countries influence, the current of the globalization or defects of their culture. Sikh's situation is almost the same with Korea's past. And the present is information oriented society. because of this, it's more difficult to prevent cultural infiltration. Already many youngsters are recognizing western culture through the internet and media recklessly and they are applying it to their way of life unconsciously. So it's just taking a good point of another countries culture, it's not too much, not too less. It means culture can't made by anothers coercion, but just shows their present thought which they think right now. Now world is changing more freer and more democratic. This means they should keep their traditional culture, and should throw unefficient habit. Finally, this will contribute to country's development and enhancement of their culture. it's not just limited to the turbun which is just showing. So culture can be showed in their clothes and custom, but I think real culture is in their mind and it should not be forced by someone.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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