NEGATIVE INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN CULTURE ON CAMBODIA

NEGATIVE INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN CULTURE ON CAMBODIA

Every country around the world has its own culture to represent the nation. People can notice each or know where they are from and who they are because of the culture. Culture includes language, tradition, custom, dressing, food or meal, buildings and religion. Cambodia is also a country that has its own culture, but this culture is not such pure as before because our culture, now is coming with foreign cultures. Mixing culture is not good for each country. What are the influences of foreign culture on Cambodia culture?

The first of all, bad influence is our culture will not exist in the world any more. As we know that culture is practiced by people. If people do not use our culture and back to use foreign culture, our culture will be dead in one day. As we can see, the way people dress is in Khmer culture, there are no jeans or short skirts that our culture does not allow to do like that. However, those are not completely their faults because they imitate that style from foreign because of flowing foreign culture into our country that appear on the television. As a result, foreign culture can kill our culture easily.

The second reason is people will confuse the culture and they will not know which our culture is. Today, people still know what our culture is, but twenty years, later people will not know our culture because we never use it. We use our only foreign culture. People culture and they will wonder if we have our own culture or not and they also think we pulverize that culture from the other because they can see on television, that other country has culture like ours.

The last points is people around the world will not know and admire our culture anyone. They all know us, Cambodians, because of our culture, language, custom, and dressing. In contrast, we ourselves, forget our culture. We never use our language we never wear Khmer dresses. Thus, how can they know we are Khmer and how can our culture still remain in the world. People use only foreign language and dress foreign style cloth and the way the act as if they were foreigners. In consequence, people around the world will forget our culture.

In conclusion, I would like to repeat that three influences of foreign cultures on Cambodia culture are Khmer culture will not remain in the world, people get confused about eh culture, and people over the world will not know our nation anymore. Thus, as we Khmer, we should try to keep our culture alive and describe our culture to our children or student to know our culture and remember if forever to tell room one person to another, culture alive means nation alive, good culture means good nation and god leader. So we should take measure to protect our culture from flowing foreign cultures into our country.