Culture in TownTable of Content Introduction Background information Brief History Disadvantages

Consumable goods Dressing Language

Institutions Effects Recommendations References

Introduction The universe with no exemption is currently

recognizing the rapid growth of youth’s population all around the world today. Papua New Guinea is also a victim out of the many countries. Presently, most youths like to live in towns and cities rather than the rural areas, which their parents, grandparents and ancestors originated.

Culture is the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society (Dictionary 2016).

The back ground and history, causes and effect, institution, recommendations of minimizing or solving this issue in PNG context.

Background Information Papua New Guinea (PNG) has over 800+ different

languages as well as traditional cultures. Every PNG community has a traditional culture which is very unique to each other. This traditional culture is part of our Melanesian style of life.

The foreign culture manages to inflict in our cultural behaviour in our towns and is slowly drifting towards the rural areas as well. It is having a greater impact on our dialectology, appearances and on our health as well.

Brief History During the first settling of the Europeans around the

years 1700s and 1800s (Lonely planet 2016) in Papua New Guinea, they brought much of their cultures with them, these cultures were innovative and captured the attention of many people living there since.

In addition to what the Europeans had brought, since they were the first people in PNG during the time of development, other countries such as the Asians and others even more like abolishing our culture. These cultures grew till today, and they are still influencing.

DisadvantagesConsumable goods (e.g. Foods & taking drugs) Eating too much of sweets and not eating

much food produced from the garden.

Consuming Alcohol FightingRaping

Dressing

Western influence towards dressing Peer Influence in dressing Getting pride in dressing Girls wearing tight clothes

Language Youths only living in towns and they are born in

towns. Youths only speaks pidgin or English

They are only thought with pidgin or English not their vernaculars.

Institution

organizations and institutions were formed such as criminals, white collars (Professionals), the rule of government, and others which enhance to the destruction to our very own culture

The forming of government are also ideas brought by foreigners.

These manipulate the system our traditional culture and many of our youths take part in it.

Conclusion Foreign activities and culture influence and

persuade more people. Traditional dressing are forgotten, because

of provocative clothing. Youths that consume substances which

affect them so badly as in addiction, Inherited, laziness, etc…

Furthermore, they forget the vernacular which is rightfully theirs; the foreign cultures had taken away what is ours.

Recommendations

Intelligence to investigate and to eradicate such problems.

Parents responsibility Individuality; overcome such difficulties

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