The Power of Culture to Create a Better Future

Each one of us has our own culture to live by. Culture seen in peoples country, religion, music, choices in food, clothes, and in everything that they do, makes us different and unique. Culture helps us become who we truly are and if you love your culture that means you love being who you have become and you are proud of it. Every culture has its own belief, knowledge, and wisdoms. Whatever we believe starts from education and from the culture that we live by everyday. Education is the key to success. What if we wont be educated now, what will happen to the future? Education with culture is the main way for a better future not only for oneself but also advancement for ones own culture. Like today, the world is much more problem free than the old times. The reason is because technology is invented. More technology may help our lives easier and leads a better future, but not all technology can lead us a better future some technology can lead us a better future some technology can destroy our future like building robots. Like in Japan, they have already made use of robots as workers replacing the human workers. Robotics has already become part of Japans culture. The different cultures that we have can also affect how our future would be like. How we act together as a whole could either bring a good future or a bad one. It depends on how we act together and what we do for our community. It affects everything around us. Having a culture with a lot of technological advances doesnt mean that the future would be bright. But what does it really mean to have a better future? Is it better technology? Better economy? Better surroundings? Better people? We cannot give a definite meaning to a better future. But with the help of the culture, we are able to understand the advantages and disadvantages. It lets us know what would be a better future. How does a culture really affect or say something about the future? Culture is a way of living. Its the arts, music, literature, and activities of a certain group of people. Its the way they behave, their beliefs and rituals. It is learning the culture that we are able to understand why people are what they are. How does the future come in in all these? What we fail to understand is that our future solely relies on our culture. It is the way we act and behave that would define what kind of future we will have. If a certain group of people do not accept new technology or innovations, then, theyre future could be easily predicted or be said something

about. But what if the culture is not that good, or beneficial to the people? How would their future turn out? Would it be better? Or will it remain the same as their present? Culture, influence our lives. There are working and successful people who inspire to do something better for the future. Which inspires the new generation. In the end I would like to say that now a days people are forgetting about our culture because of the new technology and because of that technology other kids dont go to school because of playing internet games or gaming gadgets. Some other people likes to study but because they couldnt afford going to school thats why others has to work for them able to eat at least twice a day so they wouldnt starve to death. Others dont have jobs because they did not finish studying or even graduated in high school. In the end I just wanted to say that study hard because it only have one opportunity because if you just waste that opportunity then your just taking away the opportunity for you to have a better future so for you to be able to have a better future study hard and dont forget to appreciate your own culture and be proud of who you really are and dont be ashamed to tell or show your culture and dont forget to be proud.

Kristel Anne E. Mercado III-Magalang.