TOPIC:

INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN
CULTURE ON
STUDENTS/YOUTH
CULTURE:
 Culture refers to the
beliefs,values,behaviour and material
objects
 Culture determines how we view the
world around us
 Culture includes the traditions we inherit
and pass on to next generation
 Culture: totally of our shared language,
knowledge, material objects and
behavior.
PAKISTANI CULTURE:
 Pakistani culture is essentially a part of
the modern Islamic civilization which
draws its value and traditions from Islam
and rich Islamic history. Common
populations comprise of Muslims and
follow teaching of Islam.
 Pakistani culture is a good combination
of the Punjabi, Sindhi, Pathan, Baluchi,
Seraki and Kashmiri cultures. In
addition, the presence of Hindu society
in Sindh gives touch of dance and music
in the Sindhi state.
FOREIGN CULTURE:
 Culture is the collection of feelings,
thinking, morals, ethics, goals, customs
and traditions that define a group of
people. These are often accentuating by
also having a language that is single to
that collection.
WHY THE YOUTH OF IN THE
PRESENT DAY IS SO MOTIVATED
BY THE FOREIGN CULTURE?
 This question is normally asked by people as this
thing is rising day by day.
 It may be due to release from our religion as
cultures of any nation reflect in its religion.
 The media of at present is exploiting the
personality of most modern generation. It
presents the western world in such an impressive
way that everybody can become its sufferer.
 Yes! Our country and political situation is
suffered but so are our ethics and culture. One
should end and reflect whether Pakistan is
actually what its name mean or is it just another
country loss under the spell of modernization.
INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN
CULTURE ON STUDENTS/
YOUTH:
There are two ways in which foreign
culture influence on Pakistani
students/youth:
 Positive Effects.
 Negative Effects.
SOME POSITIVE EFFECTS:
1. Human Rights
2. Women’s Rights
3. A Modern Justice System
4. Literacy
5. Improvement in Life Quality
6. Broadening the Perspective of
Knowledge in Pakistani Society
7. Responsibility of the Govt. is to Share
8. Activities of Media in Society
9. Openness Improve the people’s Life
POSITIVE EFFECTS:

1. Human Rights:
This matter very complex and come from different ways. The words of Shaukat
and Chaudhary said that “it could be due to an indirect method” whereby foreign
culture effects on the schools, colleges and universities programs, or even through
the convey procedure. Whereby readily available media in foreign country has
encouraged the community of Pakistan to accept and ask for the similar right”

2. Women’s Rights:
The foreign culture also effects on rights of women in our country. Particularly, the
women rights come with the coming of westernization in Pakistan. At present,
Pakistani women arguably more enjoy autonomy as to compare to any other Muslims
countries. The introduced of law to ensure the women rights in the Pakistani society.
The people are more aware and educate their girls as compared to their boys. The
women are getting more employment opportunity than ever. The different of gender is
eliminate and empowerment. The women's rights are being saved and the rules are
in place.
POSITIVE EFFECTS:
5.Improvement in Life Quality:
Foreign cultures are also influence on the improvement the quality of our students
and youth. The economic globalization has opened the way to support Pakistan
through the installment policies, credit cards facility and sponsoring of commercial for
different things such as microelectronics and automobiles. The Pakistani people can
now get luxury goods that they could not pay for in the past. The foreign culture highly
effects on language, and health, living standard etc.

6. Broadening the perspective of knowledge in Pakistani

Society:
By foreign culture Pakistan is get more benefit of the remunerations of globalization
like other countries. The Pakistani society gets many technologies in different forms.
Like the fax machine, mobile phone, social media, face book, twitter, a personal
computer, the Internet, logs, television, and other innovation in modern technologies.
The connection of net is very easy, simple and cheap. We can get all types of
important information Internet information about the new innovations, all people of the
world and new changes. The advancement in communication modalities are
externally showing to the world. Through the modern technologies we get the news
about different types of issues of women's rights, children’s rights and human rights
are becoming more and more common today and firstly appearing in the social media.
The youth of Pakistan are more aware of their system choice. By the using of social
media the youth can discuss the country's socio-political situation. In which all people
are participate even uneducated people.
POSITIVE EFFECTS:
7. Responsibility of the Govt. is to Share:
In the Westernization development, frequent complications have been acknowledged
in the world. For example, eradication of poverty is not only responsibility of a country
but also state. Now a day, it is the major problem all over the world. So, the global
system and financial institutions are struggle to overcome and working to solve this
crisis. The youth of Pakistan has improved economic condition of our country due to
provide loans at reasonable interest, create best strategies plans and the important
instruction of financial experts. The contribution of women and children an increase in
Pakistani society is the plan of foreign supporter organization.

8. Activities of Media in Society:

In the 2002 the medium of Pakistan have been very active. It shows the weakness of
the society and the representative the many sectors and also evaluates and
discusses the issue of society like economic position and socio-political society from
social conditions. These things also influence thinking of people of society, educators
and religious channels which are provide correct information by the simple tools.

9.Openness Improve the People’s Life:

Foreign culture also influence the openness improve the life of Pakistani youth.
In our country most of people belongs to the middle class and get benefit from
the West liberty. They use these benefits are based on opportunity in a
competitive world to change their quality of life with a negative tendency of
corruption and special effects on Pakistani youth and students.
SOME NEGATIVE EFFECTS:
1. Food
2. Celebration
3. Language
4. Influence on clothing
5. Sinking Moral Values
6. Individuality
7. Controversy in Values
8. Westernized Splits the Society in
Classes
9. Raising the Power of English in
Pakistan
NEGATIVE EFFECTS:
1. Food:
The conventional concept of home-cooked food in our culture is being replaced by
fast food meals from restaurants like KFC, Pizza Hut, and McDonalds and others
encouraged by the fast food model.
Pakistani dishes, which were well-known for their flavor, are hardly acceptable to
today's adolescence. As of today, we see cold drinks being used to such an scope
that they are piece of almost every meal, even in formal dinners. The beginning of
energy drinks and sodas also has played a part in moving back the use of traditional
drinks.

2. Celebrations:
End in Pakistan is slowly and steadily losing its fascination and importance in the
youngster Muslims. They are more passionate towards HOLI, NEWYEAR, DIWALI,
HALLOWEEN because in Pakistani Media these occasions are tinted with such
glittering impact that people have been encouraged to celebrate these occasions like
their own. The major anxiety should be that how far this influences going effect the
young age group today?
NEGATIVE EFFECTS:
3. Language:
By far, the greatest impact that westernization has had on our culture is on the
language. Our mother tongue Urdu is being replaced by English as a more common
language used in conversations. This is happening because of the number of English
medium schools in our society and the extreme use of email and messaging with the
youth, which is generally in English language.
The power of English is so great that some youth feel embarrassed speaking Urdu.
Actually, we have started using English as a tool to distinguish between high and low
class.

4. Influence on Clothing:
Whatever fashion becomes fashionable abroad, it is being adopted by people here.
Pakistani fashion industry is so motivated by the foreign styles that they don`t even
be indecisive before introducing enlightening clothes in their collection. This is
significantly against our moral values as well as our culture.

5. Sinking Moral Value:

Moral values refer to set of principles that guide an individual
on how to evaluate right versus wrong. We are losing our moral values, the new
age group has forgotten the teachings of our religion as well as the moral ethics all
due to the foreign culture incursion thanks today`s media.
NEGATIVE EFFECTS
6. individuality:
The complete or joint family system, a trademark of Pakistan social culture, is losing its
values and seems to be losing altogether, replaced by a culture of individuality. The
adolescence of today believes in freedom and individuality. As a result, we have seen an
increase in the psychological disorder, divorces, suicides, and crime.

7. Controversy in Values:
Each society has its own exacting values and has been Longley influenced by a lot of
factors, such as religion, civilization and history. In posture, changes in the education zone is
warm welcomed and accepted by the Pakistani community, on the other hand, the institution
of marital change, such as out of cast marriage, love marriage, and changing in beliefs are
generally not accepted. The clash between the traditional values of Pakistani society and the
values of the Western community is increasingly being accepted by different sectors of
society, but not accepted by the entire.

8. Westernized Splits the society in Class:

The higher classes become strictly westernized, and others are trying to follow it. Elite class
people are totally diverse to others. Aryuf Hasan (2003) explores the issue of social class
differentiation in Pakistan, and wrote that: "They cannot communicate to the variations taking
place all over the place, mainly in learning institutes for their children to be trained, so the
other families will send their children to state-owned universities."
NEGATIVE EFFECTS:
9. Raising the power of English in Pakistan:
Like other developing countries in Pakistan, English knowledge offers more jobs for
people who know English well. These are controlled by multinational companies that
sustain developed countries. The home language is losing its importance due to viral use
of English in society. Their literature disappears, with an emphasis on English language.
In Pakistani society, a mixture of popular English and national languages, which seems
strange, weakens the main, and affects vocabulary. Courses on Pakistani knowledge,
such as Pakistani studies, religious and regional languages have substandard
consideration, and students below the average adopt these subjects. It is not important
to study national languages such as Urdu, Sindhi, Pashto, Punjabi or Balouchi, the rate
for enrolling in these sectors is low. English literature is widely used as an important
subject in graduate and postgraduate education. The English Language Learning Center
has become a gainful business and has become a social insanity.
CONCLUSION:
 The influences discussed above are in no mode the only areas where
westernization has had an impact. Westernization has influence every part of
daily life, range from food to basic human being rights.
 To that coverage, even the little detail of daily life has been affect by
westernization with both positive and negative effects on Pakistan's culture.
Westernization has been element of the modernization procedure, which in no
sense can be consider as dangerous. In contrast, it is essential to observe the
West's effect as if we are not careful, it could have a negative effect on our
civilization, and show the way to the disorder of cultural morals values and
traditions.