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la9 they are objective and their choice of the master culture it made on merits •. In ~any a drawing room, one· learns that the world is growing small and an international culture it forming. In my travela abroad, I looked in vain to find the gracetul Sarli or efficient Slaalwar being adopted by even a small dissident, rebellious group. I looked in vain for a copy of’ DailyJag or even PakistanTi;”es on a news-stand in New York. While Coca-Cola is available anywhere and everywhere in Pakistan, you could not hope to buy a bottle of RoM A/Z4 sherbet anywhere. abroad (except perhaps in some Arabian countries). Most of the so-called “international” cUlture is simply one-way traffic from the weSt. Today our exposure to the rich and powerful Westem culture through radio, television, exchange student programmes and training fellow. ships has created among us a band of youth )Vho DO longer feel’ any respect towards their country, their cultUre, their history or their ~ty. This generation, being reared on an unremitting flow ofWe.tern ideas and influence, is not likely to value, much less defend the ideological frontiers of our society. We have already witneaed in the dismemberment of Pal4stan one tragic example of our neglectingtbit frontier. Today we are every moment experiencing the humiliating spectacle of being dictated to by foreign countries.

Our infantile dependence on the West it not confined to technoto. gical advice. The stream of boob, commentaries and . reports emanating from Westel:n sourcea leave us no time to think, write or even feel on our own. The quantity, quaii’Y, pace and frequency of Western thinking and advice tends to inhibit the growth of native talent rooted in native culture and history. We blindly follow the advice given to us by foreipen. ODe day we will be told that what our country needs it agriculture and suddenly the entire secretariat wiD talk of nothing except fertilizers, seeds, m-riee and Mexipak w~t. Next time we wiTJ-be told that our need it Family Planning and suddenly . unlllarried young girls start acidreis— ing august gat~erin81 and Bjv~ clini~ .details .on how the Inter-Uterine Device ihould lle used.

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