How Globalisation is Tearing Us Apart

Globalisation comes as a very familiar word in the lexicon of the citizens of the millennial era, also called as the ‘Technological Era’. As is rightly said the world has become a global village. The influence of globalisation is evident on every comportment of human existence today. From connecting every dot on the map to culturally modifying our worlds, globalisation is effecting our daily lives to a level where our perspicacity and insight of things has changed.

What started as an invention of steamship grew into a gigantic force transmogrifying every named facet in our lives, and from this influence the skin of family-ties couldn’t be saved. The relationship between globalisation and family ties looks very vague at the first glance, because generally globalisation is associated to fancier terms like- internet, economy, trade, business, but alas we forget that family being the smallest unit of society is the backbone of every other institution. Thus, the influence that has been casted upon the family structure, family ties and family relations in the world where e-mail and telephone allow the maintenance of sustained social relationships is humongous, because somehow now people don’t assign the primary importance to their biological families.

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Now, the backers and advocates of globalisation would defend the instrumental aspect of globalisation, by saying that the invention of telephone, internet, e-mail not only has reduced the spaces but has also provided a platform for more human interaction, but the question is, has the space been bridged or widened? It wouldn’t be wrong to say that we are just ‘connected by wires and distanced by hearts’, now this wisecrack doesn’t only dissect the harsh and foul reality that in the world of millions of followers, we strive to meet our confidante.

Similar state of affairs has struck the familial relationships where the youth migrates to economically prosperous countries compelled by the reasons of poverty, fewer rights, lower standards, less medical care, less legal protection and majorly lesser employment in their parent countries. This exodus results in parents being left out  at the mercy of fancy HD-screens that give them the glimpse of their children who have ‘gone-abroad’ to meet out their materialistic needs. But again we forget that nothing can ever fill up the spaces of human essence. This can be clearly proven by an increased suicide rate amongst the aged folk of our state, and sadly, I recently came home to this news of a man who happened to be a Professor by profession hanging himself to death, because he was too alone to live in the palatial bungalow of his, because his children had moved to the US and there was nobody to take care of him.

This speaks of the most important need of human perseverance and continuation. We being social animals are in dire need of love, support and care. It would be no revelation if we say that the triumph of individualism over communalism, greed instead of sharing and materialism rather than relationships has left our society impassively heartless.

Globalisation has modified our lifestyle to a total prototype of the western-style of living and we are on the verge of cultural demise. Our culture has been a perfect embodiment of values like respect for elders, selflessness, empathy and most importantly the taking care of our parents, this is no responsibility but a construction of nature, that has made us dependent on each other, and anything violating  this is questionable in the world is the Sanguine. Sadly we are treading towards  the path that seems quite contradictory of this principle of Nature, resulting in vacant houses that never get an opportunity to be  a home to a clan.

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It would be wrong to say that the people working outside of their home-states are in absolute bliss of the luxuries they aimed at pursuing. In this cut-throat competition, the lives of these migrants has just become a market-place. There is problem both culturally, racially, economically that they have to face and these vices take a parabolic rise up if the migrant happens to be  from Africa or Asia. A sub-standard working condition and under-valued work wrecks havoc even in the lives of these people driving them to a state of crises. And since they are already away from their families , they majorly lack a support system pushing them into the state of depression.

Married migrants leaving behind their spouses and children is another grave issue facing the familial aspects of our society. Children grow without their parents, many not even knowing their parents resulting in the destruction of their sense of belonging. The only picking-out aspect that is ever created in their lives is monetary which is exhibited by greeting cards, birthday gifts and some expensive imported chocolates. Frequent absence of parents especially a father means less bonding, which comes with a heavy price of lower grades in school and depression despite the increased monetary benefits.

It has been rightly said that in the past decade the scale of weighing success has changed from the 5 Cs mantra of- Commitment, Community, Character, Contentment and Compassion to the entirely different  5 Cs-Cash, Credit-card, Car, Condominium and Career and in  the pursuit of these goals we are left with no time for our families resulting in deterioration of relationships, broken homes, increased divorce rates and emotional disconnection, making us “married-bachelors” .

Nothing comes without it’s vices and boons, it is important that we protect ourselves from consumerism and not let anything change our bed-rock. We need to have firmer roots in our origin and not ignore our parents in the vim of more materialistic gains.

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