Essay About Culture In Bhutan

The kingdom Bhutan is a landlocked nation in the Himalayan mountains between india and China. Bhutan is one of the isolated independent countries maintaining its culture and traditional values in the world. (Collins, 2006) Bhutan entered the era of moderization only a few years ago and already the impact of development are visible. With modernization, the peole of Bhutan have become less intetrested in their own national dress, language and traditional forms of mucis and frstivals.
The youth of Bhutan nowadays are more interested in fancy western outfits than their own national deress. People wear gho and kira only when they go to dzongs, offices and durin important festivals ad celebrations. Bhutanese traditional dress is replaced by jeans and shirts rather than wearing gho and kira. Moreover, the students wear gho and kira only when they go to schools and colleges because in school, it is compulsary to wear gho anf kira. According to Chuki (n.d), with the introduction of extended culture, the

With the advent of modern technologies such as tellevision and internet, the young people of Bhutan has got expossed to the outside world and theit culture. They are now more interested in mimicing the culture of other foreign countries rather than preserve their own tradition which has been passed down to them by the older generation. They youth of Bhutan nowwdays like western music more than they like Bhutanese teraditional dances and songs. They think that people who can sing cool English songs and can dance to the hip-hop songs are coller than the people who are interested in Dzongkha songs. Sharma (n.d.) claims that rigsar is a modern genre that is fast becoming very popular, especially among young people while the performance of boedra and zhungdra are becoming fewer with passing