Post #4 Importance to Preserve the Culture

Preserving one’s own culture is extremely crucial because it allows us to realize that our families once came from diverse roots and heritages. Basically, culture and arts are preserved to maintain and reinforce it's cultural identity for the future generations. These different elements of cultures and arts are what promote and drive diversity, which in turn promote all sorts of innovation. For instance, if everyone ate the same type of foods, didn't celebrate their cultural holidays, wore the same type of clothes, lived in the same kind of cities all across the world, the world would be a pretty monotonous place to live in. When people preserve their culture they actually reinvent their past in order to interpret their present.
Thus, they helped us develop and mould our attitudes and characters to be productive, useful, purposely and progressive lives. The young generation today need to practice the rich cultures and arts of the country so that they are preserved for the future generations. Our traditions and cultures will be lost if they are not passed on. The blending of one culture with another also had the potential of killing off cultures. The challenge is to preserve our cultures by practicing and making them part of our lives. We must make an effort to sustain our cultures and not to depend on others. The importance of intangible cultural heritage is not the cultural manifestation itself but rather the wealth of knowledge and skills that is transmitted through it from one generation to the next. For cultures to be kept alive we need to remain relevant to a culture and be regularly practised and learned within communities and between generations. 

Thank You.
Wan Jen.