Essay On Kazakh Culture

The thought that new generation is losing national identity becomes popular in modern Kazakhstan. Even so it is not necessarily true opinion. There are some significant and perceptible feasts in Kazakh culture, such as Nauryz, Tusau keser and Kiz Uzatu. A large part of adults are quite serious about that kind of traditions and they think that their children neglect it. Kazakh culture contains some beliefs and important dates, which has its roots from the creation of the nation. Most of them had not been celebrated for a long time because of soviet regime. Nevertheless, they were revived around the time when Kazakhstan become an independent country. That time can be measured as the origin of Kazakh traditions. There is not a perceptible change in Kazakh culture. The

It means that the culture is not changing for the worse. In addition, it is getting a positive effect from the west. New technologies and medicines are part of the beneficial impact that are coming from there. As a result, it seems that Kazakh culture is getting better. This essay argues that Kazakhs still keep their traditions by comparing how holidays were celebrated in the past and present, then shows how the western culture positively affect Kazakh culture and stats that there are some beliefs that are forgotten by the nation.

To begin with, traditions are still kept by the nation. Important dates of Kazakh culture are celebrated like it was in the post-soviet time. For example, Nauryz, which is one of the main holidays of Kazakhs and it is the beginning of the New Year for a number of Turkish societies (Sadikova 2014, 231). It had not been celebrated for years of the Soviet regime, but in 1989 Kazakh nation were able to hold the spring holiday Nauryz. It happened in Alma-Ata, which is known as Almaty now. There were the national costumes and kumys were drunk by people who were acting there and people performed national dance and songs in traditional clothes