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Modernization normally result in enculturation, which brings about change in identity. So there isn't a vast difference between the two concerts. modernization so to speak lead to a change in identity.

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@ Dear All

The modernization brings a change in the behavior of people vital therefore may impact on identity. It would be much more profitable for people to keep some values of their own culture while aspiring to open up to the outside world anyway it's inevitable with rampant globalization

Indeed when we change our way of living due to modernization we do change our way of doing things for efficiency without abandoning some of the cultural values we think are important  and are our identities. Traditional things we respect  in most cases are not the means of doing things but the cultural values we cherish and those values may not be affected because of  modernization. 

Of course if a society is in the primitive state of existence then modernization need not bring only change on the way to do things but it brings a total haul on most of the traditional values the society has.  

The very notion of modernization is rather tricky - and was subject to profound criticism as early as 1960- the beginning of 1970s. See: 3. Dean C. Tipps. Modernization Theory and the Comparative Study of Societies: A Critical Perspective // Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 15, No. 2 (March 1973). P. 199-226. 

Both are compatible. Stringent adherence to tradition may stunt development. The experience of Japan with the arrival of Commodore Perry change the course of history and development of that country---strict tradition must yield to the influence of modernization. The Japan that we see today is one which balance traditional culture with modern development.

Modernization without due respect to traditional way of life degenerates into destructive chaos. Environmental pollution, deforestation, and other ills of modernity are symptoms of modernizing for the sake of modernity.

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Steve Jobs at Stanford said: Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Morpheus in the movie Matrix said, Some things change, others do not.

Between these two statements, I think it's true.

We save the traditions that we thought was right. I get up and leave my seat to pregnant women, older women, who seem distressed.

Young people much less.

I like "we can change but respect our traditional", but we must do a reason of this:

(Khalil Gibran, Poet, Born in Lebanon,1883-1931):

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them,

but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday

You are the bows from which your children

as living arrows are sent forth......

En el fondo este es el debate que se esconde en la postmodernidad de los años 80-90 del siglo pasado, la lucha entre la modernidad y la perdida del sentido de pertenencia. Geertz había dedicado unos trabajos que se pueden ver en su libro "La interpretación de las Culturas", a partir de ahí, prácticamente todos los que hemos trabajado con sociedades tradicionales nos hemos encontrado con el problema de como encajar las piezas modernidad/identidad.

En cualquier caso para mi, y lo digo modestamente, el tema está superado, hoy la identidad es mucho más frágil y la modernidad es casi como una mitología. La pregunta sólo tendría sentido en cierta medida si trabajamos (históricamente) con sociedades anteriores al siglo XIX.

The word 'globalization' or 'modernization' is fraught with multiple ambiguities....and it could be argued that, it is not possible to preserve culture without altering it's true 'value'. Therefore, drawing from Appadurai's (2008)  globalization theory, which holds that there is disjuncture of various sorts in cultures, person-hood, and space; I would like to suggest that we cannot preserve culture without altering it's true nature.

In addition,  since cultures are dynamic, they are not frozen but fluid, I  think modernization should be used to 'preserve' culture;  through reproduction of culture via contestation, legitimation and transactions with various cultures. These were  the factors underpinning Bourdieu's (1990) theory of practice, which states that culture, knowledge, identity (and others) are produced through legitimation and contestation between actors, systems and space.

Thus, we need to deconstruct to reconstruct our identity, and to preserve our culture.

Modernization often brings with it the loosening and even disappearance of old networks and the establishment of usually less highly bonded networks.  This is often true of rural to urban migrants unless a stong network-mediated migration is present.  Bonds with extended kin, however, are often loosened, and many "strong ties" are lost while "weak ties" in the urban area may be converted to stronger ties.  If one's network members influence identity, this might be how it happens if urbanziation can be seen as part of modernization.

There's always a relationship between modernization and change of identity as the forces of modernization will affect the individual identity. In the 60s-80s, modernization is perceived as being westernization, but now with globalization, it can also be easternization or asianization. As all these bring in innovations to the culture.

Dear Dr. Mohd

I hope that our traditional not change by modernization and become disappear . I am looking for how much change can remain from our culture according to the influence of the modernize waves. I am not against modernization but with limitations .

Hossam 

Dear Dr. Mohd

I hope that our traditional not change by modernization and become disappear . I am looking for how much change can remain from our culture according to the influence of the modernize waves. I am not against modernization but with limitations .

Hossam 

Dear Dr. Mohd

I hope that our traditional not change by modernization and become disappear . I am looking for how much change can remain from our culture according to the influence of the modernize waves. I am not against modernization but with limitations .

Hossam 

Dear Dr. Mohd

I hope that our traditional not change by modernization and become disappear . I am looking for how much change can remain from our culture according to the influence of the modernize waves. I am not against modernization but with limitations .

Hossam 

Dear Giorgio Domints

Sorry I couldn't follow you because I was busy but I accept your concept partially, the modernization it is dangerous if we left it without control , it can continuous damage our traditional and nothing left ,

we have to be carful when we deal with modernization that need a research to linted the scope of use modernization in each field, and I am welcome to share that with you.

Best regards

Hossam

Dear All

I hope we can Discuss with evidence , which mean if any body has example can support his or her view for the modernize influence or change factor to the place and social behavior. It will be very good answer

Hossam 

Modernization unseats identity due to the proliferation of choices and uncertainty concerning which path to take.  Identity crises become the norm.  See Peter Berger and Hansfried Kellner's book, The Homeless Mind.

 Dear all

We accept that modernization can developed from traditional

Dear Hossam,

I suggest the authors that I think are very useful: Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, Edgar Morin, Kwame Appiah.

Best wishes

VB

just present one example, in contrast to the Old Testament, The New Testament is somehow consequences of modernization developed from traditional....so what? most of the Jews stay in the tradition even they are living in modern time...

Dear Hossam

I fully agree with you: "the modernization it is dangerous if we left it without control , it can continuous damage our traditional and nothing left"

It is my thinking, but I am conscious of my limits.

When our human operative system generate a exception, it is due to our sheet of what is right and what is no right. This sheets are passed, from start, from parent to parent.

But this happens already with our peers: different sense of honor, of dignity, of what is right or wrong ....

Sadly without diversity we would still servants, we could be ruled by absolute monarchs, we would not have "Habeas corpus", most likely we not be here talking about this.

Such is life in the passing of time.

Charles Darwin said: Who does not fit, disappears.

This is hard to swallow. A poisoned meatball.

Giorgio

Thank you Giorgio

You get the same feeling for this waves and dangerous coming without preparing from us to defense well in order to keep our heritage as well as , but we need good plan to protect and to reuse to make the maintenance of this buildings independence.

Hossam

Dear Vania Baldi

I hope that I can get an way to contact them (Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, Edgar Morin, Kwame Appiah.) If you can help me I will be appreciate .

Hossam

Dear Vania Baldi

I hope that I can get an way to contact them (Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, Edgar Morin, Kwame Appiah.) If you can help me I will be appreciate .

Hossam