Globalisation with its 'ethical teaching of internationalism' has taught the people all over the world many things- we are taught to celebrate Valentine's Day -- a formal day to show affection, love to each other, Friendship Day to formally be friendly with our friends, Mothers' Day, Fathers' Day and the list goes on. Enthusiastic people are garrulous praising the days as occasions for consolidating the relationships. Now take this. What is the nature of human relation in the Asian countries? It is always so affectionate, loving- it is always a phenomenon for arousing envy in Westerners. Friendship, among us is regarded as the best gift on earth- a friend is one, among us, who cries with us in our distress, laughs with us in our good days. A son destroys his own life or career for the protection of his family. Parents die in their soul at the parting with their children who are to them a part of their own flesh. These are obviously not available in the West where natural human relation has become a phenomenon as mechanised as other mechanised elements of their lifestyle. Now, to escape the boredom, the morbidity of their life, they are landing on the fantasy lands as we see in movies -- the sequels of '' The Lords of the Ring'', the sequels of "Harry Potter" for the children. They are rushing to the Moon or the Mars to settle there in fiction or the films to escape the crudity of life.So, if the people of the East accept these norms of western culture which has, from the essence of the days mentioned above we can surmise, been trying to tie the knot at least for a day once a year, we have to consider a hypothesis that the human bondage in the East is declining. But do we really find that sort of cleavage around here? Or, are we forced to think of such a crack in our relations at the pressure of globalisation? It is alleged that this is a part of western dominance all over the world. Then, we must evaluate our condition- as the age of political imperialism is over, the cultural colonialism is engulfing us.
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