India heading towards Socio-cultural changes, Need to save the core values of the Indian society. These values are the identities of our culture.
In today's Indian society there are many changes taking place. Every society change in years. But, how can we say that a society is changing. What are the symptoms of this change. Every society has its value system which it preserve for years by passing it generation to generation. Then, what are the core values of Indian society ? The core values of Indian society are : respecting and obeying elders, cooperation, brotherhood, sharing of resources, careing and helping each other etc. One learns all these values in a joint family. A joint family is a big family where four -five nucleus families living together. A joint family is the custodian of the Indian social value system.
In today's society, we are witnessing a noticeable decay of these values. Why so? This is because of fastly decrease in joint families. Today we rarely see a joint family. Even in villages, it is rare to find out a joint family. Why Indian culture losing joint family - a custodian of our values system.
In today's world, people are more conscious about economy rather than society.
First due to globalisation and now digitalisation add on to very fast globalisation. Now Indian are learning from the western society. Indian learning western social values from movies, web series etc. If we see the core value of western society is economy based rather than society based. They believe in nucleus families rather than joint families. They are much aware about saving and investment. Indian society was more inclined towards sharing and caring rather than saving and investment i.e. means more values to social values rather than economic values.
But, now Indian society is in the fastly shifting phase from social concept to economic concept. Now they are thinking about individual earning, saving and investment rather than sharing of income or resources for helping others in need. This is the reason they are preferring nucleus families rather than joint families. Joint families are the custodian of the value system of the Indian society. The drastically decrease in joint families is the cause for drastically decrease in the social and humanitarian values in the Indian society. And this shift from joint to nucleus families is due to economic pressure. This change in social values is due to economic desires of an individual. An individual thinks that he or she can take economic decision easily in a nucleus family. They want to plan their income as they want unlike the joint family where all income and expenditure decision are taken by the eldest member of the joint family.
Then, to to be done to preserve the Indian value system. Should we ban nucleus families? Not at all, everything is not bad about a nucleus family. A nucleus family provides an individual the freedom of decisions making. Then, should we break all joint families into nucleus families to provide freedom of decisions making? Are joint families undemocratic ? Not at all. All joint families are not undemocratic and all nucleus families are not democratic. All nucleus families necessarily not provides the freedom of decisions making. Then, what's the solution? We have to save our values system at any cost because the core values of a society are the identities of a culture. So, a joint family which takes decisions by discussion with all members of the family is the best way to ensure democratic values like freedom of decisions making as well as to preserve the Indian value system. Such a type of joint family is a right playground for the children to learn and grow as a responsible citizen.
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