Essay On Globalization In Bhutan

Bhutan is the small country located in the eastern Himalayan region between two gigantic countries, China in the North and India in the South. Bhutan is covered with many of settlements each bearing its own set of traditional and culture in different wonderfully surrounded valleys. The rich tradition and culture was practiced hundreds of years, has been passing through the generations to generations. However, with the dawn of modernization and globalization, our country is somehow improving the modern lifestyle has made the lives of Bhutanese people more comfortable and easier to do works. When this modernization situation continues to growing; the country is facing many challenges in terms of social impact, economic impact and cultural impacts.
The modernization has made much improvement in our lifestyle especially by television, those who are living in urban areas. According to Kinley Rinchen, (n.d.), Movies developed in the country much before

This always affects our culture by modernization. Now we never see especially our youth don’t see in their national dress where ever they loiter around the town. For example, the younger generations mostly now look for branded shoes and track suits and go for walk or jogs. They reluctant to help their parents at home rather thy just loitering in the town. More observation can be made on dress; the youth make lot of exceptions to the national dress. According to the John (n.d) in Bhutan, one of the traditional games is archery. In rural areas playing archery is still common, but it has all died out in the larger towns and cities in favor of Western games like football, volleyball and basketball. Whether these effects are positive or negative to our culture, it dependence on the prospective of individuals; whereas urban youth who seems to hold most of these culture change (Cline,