Most people have forgotten the meaning behind traditional or religious festivals: during festival periods, people nowadays only want to enjoy themselves. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

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Most of the
society
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has ignored to understand the
significance
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of the cultural way of celebrations we used to have. Almost everyone in the recent past
tend
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tends
to usually consider it as a holiday and spending their time to do
usual stuff
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the usual stuff, for
the usual stuff for
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, watching movies or any other way of non-traditional entertainment. In
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essay, I'll discuss about my opinion as to how it's affecting the downfall of the culture. Cultural celebrations were almost dominated by the technology. Earlier days, most of these celebrations were spent
with family together
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together with family
. It helped improve bonding in the family and
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people cared about
eachother
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each other
. A celebration usually meant to be celebrated as a family. But rather we rarely see that happening in the recent past.
Real entertainment
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The real entertainment
is when you celebrate the festival how it's supposed to be done. The time you don't understand the
significance
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of it, it proves that we aren't moving in the correct path. If we take an example of Christmas, on that particular day people should celebrate by gifting their friends and families. Attending church and doing prayers is the main
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particular
celebrations but
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celebration, but
celebration but
we rarely see that happening.
Eventhough
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Even though
it's a collective festival, most of the
society
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tend
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tends
to celebrate it individually and few even
don't celebrate
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doesn't celebrate
at all.
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is not a recommended change we could expect in the
society
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. Most of
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kind of
society
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needs to be educated on
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and need to learn how to enjoy collectively. In my opinion, people should learn to understand the
significance
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of a cultural celebration. How they need to celebrate and what they need to do as well. It's the responsibility of the parents to educate and follow the culture to
flowrish
grow vigorously
flourish
the knowledge for future generations too.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Commercialization
  • Globalization
  • Cultural dilution
  • Traditional values
  • Secularization
  • Festivity
  • Heritage
  • Individualism vs. collectivism
  • Consumer culture
  • Intangible cultural heritage
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