4.9.4

4.9.4 Chapter 9 - Section 4 pages 214-217 Bridget Foote and Ashley Lennick

Objective: To learn how India's citizens are changing and in what ways they are changing due to technology and exposure to western culture.

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[|Bridget's Link on Changing Indian Culture] The article, //Changing Values in Indian Culture,// provides an interesting view on the effects of modernization in India. It shows both sides, the positive and negative effects, and then goes on to offer an opinion on how to solve the negative effects. The textbook describes mainly positive effects, so it is helpful to get an educated perspective on the negative effects of modernization as well. This educational blog does a very thorough job of explaining each effect and the writing style is easy to understand. One negative of this site is that it doesn't provide information on how modernization began in India, but that information is not included in section 4 of chapter 9 in the textbook. That information comes earlier so students should begin this section already knowing how modernization started in India. Since the students would already know about how modernization starts in India, they will have the necessary background knowledge to fully understand the site, eliminating the problem. Overall, this site contains valuable information pertaining to the changing Indian culture and adds depth to the learning presented in the textbook.

[|Ashley's link on culture change in India] This article was written by the university of Delhi in India. This article focuses mostly on how the modern western culture is effecting traditional Hindu people in India. The article Is very organized and has good descriptions. This article might be a bit bias due to it being written by an Indian university. Overall the article was well written. A negative part of this article is that it doesnt foccass on all the changing aspects of Indias culture. It goes through the religion mostly but not on the economy or anything. The parts of the artlical that were good is it gave background information on Indias old culture and values. This artlical would be good to find out more information about the main religion in India, Hinduism, what it used to be and what it is changing about the religion and what is making it change.

media type="youtube" key="liBPxiphF0U" width="355" height="206" This video is from the World Bank. It explains how some of the culture of India is changing due to modernization. It explains how India's government is trying to improve the health of their people and stop the spreading of diseases by making it a social norm to have a toilet. This video gets to most of the main topics in our chapter. The video gives examples of how India is changing and the changing culture. This video also might have bias due to it not showing people from every walk of life in India. showing how education is improving by schools teaching children about hygiene. Technology is also a huge change in India with cell phones. Even more people have cell phones than toilets. This change in habit and cleanliness could improve the life span of people in India. Overall this is a good extension of learning from the textbook.