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Preserving Culture & our Indigenous Identity with changing times in Arunachal

Start Date: 31-10-2022
End Date: 31-01-2023

In order to retain the knowledge and insights of the past, it is imperative for the current and all future generations to preserve the rich culture and history adhering to a ...

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Preserving Culture & our Indigenous Identity with changing times in Arunachal

In order to retain the knowledge and insights of the past, it is imperative for the current and all future generations to preserve the rich culture and history adhering to a region. As the largest Northeastern state in India, Arunachal Pradesh presents a diverse and widespread amalgamation of indigenous culture and history of the many tribes that call it home. The region has been predominantly inhabited by indigenous people since time immemorial, having a distinct history, food, traditions, dialect, custom, culture, and heritage.

The lifestyles of the indigenous communities residing in Arunachal are simplistic and sustainable. Their practice of worshiping nature as supreme and believing that it is the ultimate giver implies the importance of nature and its impact on the community. And because of the immense traditional values it holds, they strive and swear to protect nature and its resources.

Understanding of traditional knowledge and methods is possible through preservation of culture, which is then passed down from generation to generation through stories, dances, poems, music, carvings, paintings, and renditions. Sharing inventions and practices developed over the centuries among indigenous societies require a profound understanding of the past; that have been carefully preserved till now.

At the same time, the region is catching up with changing technologies and advancements - an evolutionary trend that can potentially fade away past culture and traditional values, in the absence of carefully implemented preservation techniques.

Government of Arunachal Pradesh, through the MyGov Arunachal platform, invites ideas suggesting effective methods of cultural preservation in the state of Arunachal with changing times and advancement.

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BrahmDevYadav 1 year 2 months ago

How can we preserve indigenous knowledge in state?
Teaching children in their languages and traditional ways maintains community culture, reduces school drop-out rates and leads to economic growth. It also strengthens linguistic diversity and contributes to achieving both the Declaration and the 2030 Agenda which includes explicit references to indigenous peoples.

BrahmDevYadav 1 year 2 months ago

How to protect and preserve the indigenous peoples cultural integrity in State?
To protect their heritage, indigenous peoples must control their own means of cultural transmission and education. This includes their right to the continued use and wherever necessary, the restoration of their own languages and orthographies.

BrahmDevYadav 1 year 2 months ago

Why is it important to preserve indigenous cultures in State?
It underpins our sense of identity and connects us to our past, each other and the wider world. Indigenous peoples hold a rich diversity of living heritage including practices, representations, expressions, knowledge and skills that continue to be relevant and provide meaning in everyday life.

BrahmDevYadav 1 year 2 months ago

How can you help the region in promoting and preserving their culture in state?
It can be done by researching and studying languages, restoring historic artifacts found that are significant to its culture or heritage and encouraging the preservation and use of languages or rituals symbolic to them.

BrahmDevYadav 1 year 2 months ago

How do we preserve our cultural identity?
Culture can be preserved in the following:-
1.By visiting a museum and going on tour to the cultural sites.
2.Reading literature and poem on the culture of the place.
3.Imparting cultural knowledge to the next generation.

BrahmDevYadav 1 year 2 months ago

What are the seven good things of culture in State?
1.Social Organization.
2.Language.
3.Customs and Traditions.
4.Religion.
5.Arts and Literature.
6.Forms of Government.
7.Economic Systems.

BrahmDevYadav 1 year 2 months ago

What is traditional culture practice in Arunachal Pradesh?
Traditional cultural practices reflect values and beliefs held by members of a community for periods often spanning generations.

BrahmDevYadav 1 year 2 months ago

What is culture within a society in State?
Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals and art.

BrahmDevYadav 1 year 2 months ago

Why is it important to protect culture in Arunachal Pradesh?
Culture and its heritage reflect and shape values, beliefs and aspirations, thereby defining a people's national identity. It is important to preserve our cultural heritage because it keeps our integrity as a people.

BrahmDevYadav 1 year 2 months ago

What is cultural values in State?
Cultural values are a culture's core beliefs about what is good or right. We all have cultural values. These are sometimes called 'cultural value preferences'. They are informed by the cultures, we most associate ourselves with them. These values are neither positive nor negative. These are just differences.