IT is necessary as a country, we develop a national heritage preservation plan to preserve the rich Ghanaian culture. This is because culture by its operational definition identifies who a person is?
AND for this reason, it is important we uphold it in high esteem since we cannot afford to lose our true identity as Ghanaians.
AND in helping to preserve our culture and tradition, we must not forget that, the inclusion of writers is very essential in that direction. Writers, we think must be made to play an integral role by communicating ideas and values to support such a laudable course.
THE writer’s ideas have the tendency of strengthening societal bonds and as well promote healthy relationships to bridge cultural diversities.
IN fact, there should be a national debate on the way forward to preserve our rich heritage and culture. The truth of the matter is that, the preservation of our culture is very critical, since it can propel us to attain our national development goals.
HOWEVR, Today finds it quite unfortunate, the intrusion of the western culture into our country. This hascome as a result of modernisation, urbanisation and technology.
BUT one thing we must know is that, we cannot copy blindly by behaving or living like the westerners whiles our cherished and rich culture is being abandoned all in the name of the above three elements.
AND it is high time we realised the mistake we are making by abandoning our culture and following what is alien to us. The interesting part of this is that, whiles we do not value our own, the westerners do not joke with theirs.
FOR instances, countries like Germany, Japan, Italy, France North and South Korea and others see their culture as unique and supreme which wherever they go, they portray it.
INDEED, citizens of these countries are not ashamed of their culture.
FOR example, a Japanese or a Chinese today continues to eat with sticks even at international gatherings because their culture demands that.
ALSO a German or a French will not speak an English language when at an international forum because he or she values her language more than anybody’s own.
AND until we begin to also appreciate our own, we will continue to live as strangers in our own country.
IT is even sad that, in most of our schools today, our local dialects are not being taught.
SOME parents also do not want to hear their wards speak our local languages, something we find it very absurd and therefore must change.
Source: Today
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WHAT IS CULTURE NEEDS TO BE CLEARLY DEFINED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ESSAY ABOVE. CULTURE IS DISTINCT FROM TRADITION. CULTURE, I STRONGLY BELIEVE, IS THE VALUES OF LIFE AND LIVING A PEOPLE APPRECIATE AND LIVE. IT IS THE APPRECIATED VALUES OF LIFE A PEOPLE HAVE ELECTED TO LIVE I DEFINE AS CULTURE. THE ANCIENT LIFESTYLE OF A PEOPLE THAT NO LONGER HOLD ANY MEANINGFULLY FOR THEM I TERM TRADITION. GHANA IS WORKING TOWARDS THE GROWTH AND STATUS OF A NATION STATE, A NATION STATE RUN BY A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION. IN THE CONTEXT OF GHANA AS A REPUBLICAN STATE, CHIEFTAINCY AS AN INSTITUTION OF GOVERNANCE IS THE OBSOLETE. CHIEFS NO LONGER HOLD SWAY IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA BECAUSE THE BELONG TO AN OBSOLETE TRADITION THAT SERVES NO ONE NO GOOD FOR WHAT IT WAS AND WHAT IT IS EVEN NOW. CULTURE IS NOT TRADITION. CULTURE IS DYNAMIC AND UPHOLDS MEANINGFUL AND HEALTHY CHANGE FOR THE HEALTH AND HEALTHY GROW OF THE CITIZEN - MAN. IT IS THIS MUCH CLEAR AND SIMPLE. GHANA CANNOT EVER BE CONTROLLED BY OUR ANCIENT TRADITIONS BECAUSE THEY ARE ANTEDILUVIAN.
All I want to tell you is that FOR LACK OF WISDOM MY PEOPLE PERISH.You are so empty barrel to despise your culture and its preservation.Everything has a culture even there is a business culture.And if you as a human have no culture then you are worse than some ***barred word*** bi because even mboa have culture
Go and ask your mother to preserve those fruitless and ***barred word*** culture. If you are a country and you don't learn from others then you are a ***barred word*** ***barred word*** as a human being as well as a nation. Every country learn from each others. Any country who wants to develope must do things differently from the ones they are familiar with.You stay there with that ***barred word*** culture preservation thing and you would be left behind. What do we get from the ghanaian culture.Those who practiced it are all dead and gone and you want people to preserve it. Hmm not wise for me . English is our official language and as a country we all have to learn to speak it. We cannot be speaking our local languages to each other.Because we don't understand each other's languages That's why Our first president thought it wise for us to use the the english language instead of using all the 150 languages that we have in ghana. English have been with us before the creation of the country Ghana. So it's very smart to use the English language as our national language instead of using Ga or Eve or Twi.If you want to do further studies you need to use the english language to do that. I know These twi speaking village people who have lived in accra for many years but cannot speak Ga.They come to Accra to tell us Ga people we cannot speak your Ga language but Learn to speak the english language and you'll be fine.