Cause And Effect Of Cultural Revolution

Everyday there are constant changes and “revolutions” that occur. With the constant evolution of things such as technology, culture and religion comes evolution in societies. This paper will focus on how I believe a certain type of Cultural Revolution has affected me personally, globally and how it might possibly affect the future. The term “Revolution” doesn’t necessarily relate to politics or a change for people. Revolution can be interpreted in a sense that there are things affecting the world and causing these constant changes. In a general sense, I believe there has been a massive Cultural Revolution lately, especially in the Middle East. More specifically, we will focus on the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) and their countries: Bahrain,

As a child, I grew up in the culture of the Gulf, more specifically, Qatar. Just recently in the past few years Qatar has boomed to become the richest nation in the world and has invested heavily in foreign countries. Growing up, I wasn’t very accustomed to meeting different people from different countries and cultures since Qatar is extremely small and was still in tact with older customs. Slowly, as more people started to come into the GCC for work, people started to become aware of these different cultures coming into their countries. Soon enough, these countries were filed with the majority of the population being expats. This indirectly caused a Cultural Revolution in all of the GCC countries. This allowed me to interact and learn about many other cultures. There are countries I had never even thought of even interacting with. This basically caused a social change in all people allowing everyone to become familiar with one another. In the older days, locals somewhat felt a cultural disconnection in relation to how they had their own culture and other Middle Eastern countries had theirs. Due to this revolution, people started acting as “one” rather then being different. This also caused a great benefit to the people of these

This cultural revolution has introduced a great deal of modernism in the GCC. Of course, with this many advantages and disadvantages may arise. As stated before there have been many great outcomes of this. But we have to also consider the possible disadvantages as well. It is very difficult for developing countries such as Qatar and the UAE to achieve their goals while keeping culture intact. There is always that possibility of the culture evolving in a way that will cause origins to disappear. Today’s society has become so busy with education and a sense of modernism that it has actually caused some people to forget their roots and what their culture actually is. This is due to globalization and it will always be a potential risk to many countries. Luckily, Qatar and the UAE have realized this potential factor and have strategically planned to develop while keeping culture a big part. Another possible revolution on the horizon would be the evaluation of technology. People have become more alert and aware of what is going on in the world and technology will always be a factor in that. All of these things as you can see affect one another. Technology will increase the horizons of people thoughts and ideas which will allow more globalization and that will in turn affect culture. It is a somewhat continuous cycle. A possible threat would be that in the future, all people will eventually relate to one culture.