Suggestion about folk culture in the development and promotion of tourism in Bangladesh:

BPC should initiate and offer seminars and training programs with other tour operators to
promote folk culture, train tourist guides and develop promotional plan.
The condition of folk culture of Bangladesh is not so good. So Government should take
necessary steps to save and protect folk culture as early as possible.
Build up public awareness through education for our national heritage.
Government should take necessary steps for publicity.
The elements of the folk culture should be concerned from any sort of distortion
destruction.
Steps should be taken at Government level to conserve the endangered elements of folk
culture.
Authority and the private organization should also take steps to protect folk culture.
The media also played a vital role to make the local people conscious about folk culture.
Regional language should be preserved.
National heritage of Bangladesh should be preserved.
The importance of folk culture should be included in the text book so that the students
can understand the significance of folk culture.
University students also play a vital role in the development and promotion of folk
culture.
Students can make the local people aware so that they can save and protect folk culture.
The Government should take necessary steps so that the foreign tourists come to our
country to enjoy the folk culture.
Different promotional activities should also be taken to attract foreign tourists.
Make the local people interested so that they can accept foreign tourists.
Ensure the effective security system for the tourists so that they can easily move one
place to another.
To reduce accommodation problem, more hotel and motel need to be established in
different strategically and culturally important locations.
To overcome transportation problem special bus service need to be introduced for the
tourists and Government can extend the train line wherever possible.
Tour operator should introduce attractive packages for the local as well as international
tourists.
The qualitative value of the folk elements should be enhanced.

Recommendation
i) The Condition of Folk culture of Bangladesh is not good. So Government /concern authority
should take necessary steps to save and protect folk culture as early as. Possible .

Government should take policy culture in men / women in folk culture in Bangladesh.
Build up public awareness through. Education for our national heritage.
Govt. should take necessary steps for list publicity
The elements of the folk culture should be concerned from any sort of distortion
/destruction.
Government should form a committee to rescued folk elements from various races of
Bangladesh .
Steps should be taken at Govt. level to conserve the endangered elements of folk
culture.
The qualitative value of the folk elements should be enhanced.
It should be freed from urban culture.
It should be freed from the influence of our culture.

Findings :
After the study, avoid picture of the folk culture of Bangles has been found.
The findings of the study are the following :
i) The source of our folk culture is the life of the rural people.

ii) Our folk culture is composed of several ingrates types of ingredients such as
a) Material elements
b) Formal elements
c) Function elements and
d) Performance elements

iii)Components of folk culture are the following

a) Folk songs
b) Folk Jales
c) Idioms
d) Puzzles
e) Folk Drama
f) Folk rituals
g) Folk carryall and
h) Folk Art /Ulkey.

Threats to folk culture

 1. Loss of traditional values
2. Foreign media imperialism

3. Change of culture
4. Placelessness
5. Environmental threats
6. the overtake of more popular customs.

1. The influence of political and ideological transformations on folk culture

2. Social and economic transformation as a threat to folk culture
3. Civilizational threats to folk culture
4. The impact of globalization on folk culture

changes slowly

Folk culture is transmitted more slowly and on a smaller scale than popular culture.
Threats to the folk culture in Europe
1. The influence of political and ideological transformations on folk culture
One of the factors having strong impact on the condition of folk culture is intolerance of
some ethnic groups to different ones, instigated by nationalist policies. Cultural, religious,
national and political intolerance result from misunderstanding between people of different
identities, formed by denying other people their right to be different. These lead to mutual
resentments, accusations, hostility and hatred. In this way nationalism, chauvinism and
religious fundamentalism are born. Such political tendencies are principal foes to the variety of
traditional folklore, national culture and religious diversity. They lead to fratricidal fights, wars,
oppression of peoples, or even attempts at biological extermination of adversaries, just because
they are different.
But with the widening range of political freedom in Central and Eastern as well as South-
eastern Europe in the 1990s, the above mentioned threats to folk culture have appeared anew,
particularly on border-lands inhabited by national minorities. In the euphoria of political
freedom the old cultural differences have been reviving together with old resentments and
complaints about harm done in the past. New demands concerning rights and liberties have
risen. On some territories ethnic disputes have turned into armed fighting. Particular signs of
nationalism found their expression in a fratricidal war between some peoples of Southern
Europe in the Balkans. For national, cultural or religious reasons, and because of political
differences and ambitions, the unique treasures of cultural heritage and the rich material culture
of folklore have been turned to ruins, whole ethnic groups have been driven away from their
centuries-old home territories, and a large number of national and cultural adversaries have
been atrociously murdered.
In recent years ethnic fights in the Balkans have been decreasing, but that is rather the
result of the presence of the UN Peace Corps than of a greater tolerance between the
adversaries. How much longer can foreign military forces replace mutual tolerance? Is the
eruption of the Balkan nationalist volcano going to threaten Europe in the third millennium, the
same as it did for the last hundred years? Will it be possible to eliminate the existing ethnic
conflicts in the coming decades? Does not the IOV as a whole, and particularly its national
sections, have a duty to oppose to this shameful threat to folk culture?
2. Social and economic transformation as a threat to folk culture
Folk culture has always been closely bound with natural rural life. Social and economic
changes in the village (technological progress, migrations, the spread of schooling,
industrialization) have become intensified since the end of the 19th century, causing gradual
decline of folk culture.
In the new free-market conditions culture has become a commercial product, which
cannot compete with modern mass culture. Consequences of the restructuring of rural economy
are pauperization of villagers and their migration (especially of youth ones) to cities or to other
countries. Stable traditional and natural ethnic bonds as well as family bonds or neighborhood
relations, which used to lie at the roots of folk culture, have become shattered. The ideal of a
successful businessman and the lifestyle oriented on easy economic profit are being promoted
nowadays among young people in lieu of the ideal of a culturally competent person. Such
lifestyle makes people feel closer to Western Europe.
In the process of economic transformation in Poland and, I assume, in the other
countries of Central Europe as well folk culture suffered huge damage. The chase of profit
and an idolatrous function of money destroy unselfish artistic activity of numerous folk artists
and unpaid hobbyist activities of the organizers of spontaneous cultural life. Many folk music
bands and folk singers and dancers with considerable artistic output get dissolved.
Ethnographic museums and scansens face worse and worse situation. The same is true about
research centers dealing with folk culture. The activity of cultural and folklorist associations is
declining. International exchange of folk companies has been limited to the minimum. Culture
centers and clubs, which used to give main support to folk groups are either liquidated or
change the profile of their activity because of financial shortages.
Moreover, high unemployment, which is one of the results of the economic
transformation, has a negative impact on cultural life. People who cannot satisfy their basic
needs because of lack of money have other priorities than participation in cultural life.
The question now is: in view of such threats to folk culture, should we return to more
natural, primitive system of economy, or in order to keep up with the times support its
transformation, trying at the same time to find a proper place as well as organizational and
financial support to the folk culture?
3. Civilizational threats to folk culture
Contemporary civilization changes, which is an obvious thing, result from a ever-greater
pace of scientific and technological development which, in turn, causes accelerated processes
of industrialization and urbanization, creation of new types of energy for contemporary
industry, development of a new-generation electronics and their use to improve communication
among people. These changes are being conducted deliberately and consciously to serve well to
the benefit of the contemporary man, satisfying his needs and ambitions.
Unfortunately, though, the development of contemporary civilization has been eliciting
more and more side effects, brought about by man either unintentionally or quite knowingly,
which is unpardonable and shows lack of responsibility for the present and future generations
of our globe.
Besides the above-mentioned threats there are many symptoms of mans reckless
interference with the complex structure of the natural environment. By destroying our natural
environment we do harm to the natural source from which traditional folklore has arisen and
developed. And when the background is gone, the carriers of folk culture disappear and finally
the folk culture is gone as well. As a result of changes in civilization, the family, being the
principal agent of cultural education, has been undergoing a process of gradual disintegration,
losing this way its influence in this area. Moral norms, regulating peoples natural relations and
sanctioned by folk culture traditions, cease to be valued. Social pathology like alcoholism and
drug abuse, prostitution, larceny, thuggery and terrorism take over everywhere at a quick pace.
Under such negative influences of today, not only the folk culture both authentic and
stylized is endangered but also the whole cultural heritage of Europe and that of the
contemporary world. But in face of such threats of civilization to folk culture should we oppose
the development of civilization, which provides societies with so many benefits? Or should we
rather try to reduce its negative effects on folk culture and find its appropriate place in the
world? However, the reversal of history and civilizational development is impossible. That is
why, instead of denying them, we ought to take advantage of these achievements in order to
popularize, document and preserve folk culture for future generations.
4. The impact of globalization on folk culture
On the doorstep to the 3rd millennium the process of globalization of all walks of life:
economic, political and social, has been speeding up. The global network of satellite
communication has become the main transmitter of the uniformed mass culture. The audio and
video market have a similar world-wide range. The world has become a global village.
The globalization processes contribute to a degradation of peoples natural environment:
family, living and working place, religious and cultural communities. This leads to unfavorable
conditions like: limitation of sovereignty of small nations; liquidation of national minorities;
impairment of the sense of national and cultural identity; obliteration of the rich and varied
national and folk lifestyles. There appears a global, standard, uniform lifestyle, submitted to the
relentless economic processes, full of psychic tensions, stress, civilization-caused diseases,
primitive behavior, and often even moral degeneration.
What attitude should we take towards the impact of globalization on folk culture? Should
we stand up on barricades together with those who protest against globalization or instead look
for a better place for folk culture in the modern, globalized world?
The above considerations attempt at showing that the close of the second millennium of
folk culture in Europe has been a period of its constant degradation and destruction. Activities
undertaken by UNESCO, by the IOV and other non-governmental organizations, as well as by
some governments, to prevent the above-mentioned degradation are not sufficient yet, in spite
of all their efforts. The World Decade for Cultural Development has not quite fulfilled
expectations connected with its programme. The folk culture in Central and Eastern Europe
where it functions under the complex processes of transformation at the beginning of the 3rd
millennium is experiencing great difficulties.

Threats to Folk Culture

Loss of Traditional Values
Folk culture is very important but is in risk of being lost due to the overtake of more popular
customs. For example, we are losing the original idea of clothing and the original idea of roles
of women.

The ideas of women are changing. In folk culture, it is expected of a woman to be caring
to the children and serving a man. Now, popular culture convinces us that women must be
independent. For example, a stay-at home mom is now frowned upon for not reaching a
women's "full potential."
Roles of Women
As the roles of women change, so does the clothing they wear. Some religions look down at
clothing of popular culture. They support continuing to wear folk clothes. One example of this
is Fundamentalist Muslim and their encouragement of women wearing black chadors.
Clothing
Television and radio broadcasts, and other news media are controlled and monopolized by the
government. Some shows present new ideas to replace old values, but some places are more
strict in what they are allowed to air.
Media is a Threat to Traditional Values

Folk culture is type of culture is practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living
in isolated areas.
The globalization of popular culture is the main reason folk culture has been diminishing, and
could continue at a steep rate. The diffusion of pop culture may threaten the survival of folk
culture.
Pop culture is the type of culture is in large heterogeneous societies that share certain habits
despite differences.

Conclusion

The introduction or picture of a nation is found in her culture. If the culture collapses, the nation
will be identify less. So every nation should protect or preserve her culture for her existence.

The folklore culture of Bangles is now on the way of ruin. So it is the duty of every citizen
nurture it and to prepare it. If we can protect our folk one culture, the nation will find her
existence very eerily If is impossible to reflect all the folk one culture of within this very short
line. I hope, it will be fulfill at the hand of extraordinary expert in the course of him.

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For centuries Bangladesh has been an agri cultural society. So, its folk culture is based on the
rituals and rhythms of rural life. Despite the trends of urbanization and globalization our culture
of both the urban and rural communities are folk oriented.

Both our practical and cultural life are based on Australoid and Drabid Society. But there is no
documentary history where we can get the depiction of their times and culture. On the basis of
different information we can come to conclusion that our lifestyle has been influenced by the
arrival and permanent living at different nations in course of time, the amalgamation of different
lifestyle have led to a distinctive cultural trend.

The development of culture is not possible without tradition. The mode of life for a long period
of time builds up the foundation of culture. Basically, culture is tradition.