It is inevitable that traditional cultures will be lost as technology develops. Technology and traditional cultures are incompatible. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?

Some people

eblieve

accept as true; take to be true

believe

that technological developments lead to the loss of traditional culture. I partly agree with

this

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claim; while it may be true in the case of some societies, others seem to be unaffected

bt

two things or people together

both

by

but

technology and the modern world. On the one hand, the advances in technology that have driven industrialisation (yönlendiren) in developed countries have certainly

dontributed

bestow a quality on

contributed

to the disappearance of traditional ways of life.

For example

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, in pre-

industrail

of or relating to or resulting from industry

industrial

Britain, generations of families grew up in the same small village communities. These communities had a strong sense of identity, due to their shared customs and beliefs.

However

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, developments in transport,

communicatons

the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.)

communications

and

manufacytring

the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

manufacturing

led to the

disappearence

the act of leaving secretly or without explanation

disappearance

of big families and conventional communities as people moved to the cities in search of work. Nowadays, most British villages are inhabited by commuters, many of whom do not know their closest neighbours.

On the other hand

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, in some parts of world traditional cultures are still alive. There are tribes in the Amazon Rainforest,

for example

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, that have been completely untouched

bt

Used in specifying adjacent dimensions

by

the technological developments of

developed world

Suggestion

the developed world

. These tribal communities continue to hunt and gather food from the forest, and traditional skills are passed on to children by parents and elders. Other traditional cultures,

such

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as farming communities in parts of Africa, are embracing communication technologies. Mobile phones give farmers access to information, from weather predictions to market prices, which

helsp

give help or assistance; be of service

helps

help

them to prosper (

refahlanmak

Suggestion

) and

therefore

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support their culture. In summary, many traditional ways of life have been lost

as a result

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of advances in technology, but other

taditional

consisting of or derived from tradition

traditional

communities have survived and even flourished.