@jaisiyaram
If the kids ie next generation dont want to follow the culture then its their individual choice and it is improper to blame parents and/or liberals.
Its pity, that the culture had been reduced to individual choice..
Individual choices do not come from skies sir.. Nor it comes spontaneously.. individual choices are manufactured and influenced.. when some guys attempt to seduce girls, its no more the individual choice of the girl.. the fact is she is being influenced and cheated.. we have to take pro-active action..
The tastes, likes of the present generation is influenced by various factors.. education, media, newspapers, cinema, music, and many other factors.. the individual choice that you are citing now, is not actually a choice..
and that is why i am advocating for collective action.. people has to come together as a community, educate their kids as a community, impart cultural values.. the children are how they are shaped up.. if we dont care them, any children will degrade.. unfortunately, the present education system has nothing that imparts value to the children.. what it teaches is how to exploit others for one's own selfish desires.. and the science and technology that we study are tools for this goal..
One of the biggest strengths of indian culture is that it makes everyone accountable to various things.. accountable to parents.. accountable to the society.. accountable to the nature.. accountable to our own actions.. It is this sense of dharma, that had helped us to have various thriving communities..
But today's education, displaced this very fact.. It teaches us, that the world is for you to enjoy.. dont care about any one.. anything.. just go by your wishes, and fulfill your desires.. and after pushing oneself confined to their own desires, then a vested group is now screaming "individual choice".. "individual choice".. (i am pointing to the media, human rights activist and womens rights activists)..
and we people, ignorant of the larger designs, are playing by game of the vested intersts... i should say, the educated people of the present generation lost the sense of dharma.. but we can see this sense of dharma ingrained in the previous generation of all communities.. just go to a dalit community hamlet, and speak to an elder ... he will use words like "Ithu dharmangala.. ithu nyayangala"..
I had an interesting debate during anti-smoking campaign.. some one said, that its his individual choice to smoke .. we said, you are not smoking out of choice.. but out of addiction.. you yourself are slave to that habit..
In the same token, kids are not properties/toys/slaves of parents.
The children are the properties of the parents.. do you think, a slave will be allowed to join professional degree? in so many families, the boy or girl enjoy all the cares of their parents, all the facilities, and the money they give, study in colleges and once they get their own job, ditch their parents and talk about individual choice..
Imagine.. if it happens b/w a friend.. the name for it will be "Nambikkai Dhroham".. "The greatest betrayal".. there forgiveness for a enemy.. but there is no forgiveness for a betrayal..