THBT preserving culture has no place in the society today

It's very exciting to discuss this issue first introduced to me in my sociology class. I hope this would be a good debate! First and foremost, I do concede to the fact that one of the good reasons for saying that culture hampers the growth of an individual is that it does dictate a certain 'to-do' list for the person; how he or she should act, what he or she should look like, etc. But I would like to refute that culture is something that a person grows up with; it is something that is not 'forced' to him or her for the sake of culture itself. As what I have said earlier in my argument, preserving culture has its values being upheld, and there are many stakeholders benefiting from its maintenance. According to your argument, preservation is like enacting culture, especially the old, traditional ones in a way that it inhibits adaptation of the individual in the modern society. However, this is not certainly true since culture is dynamic, and this characteristic has been established and proves to take effect until the present times. Culture grows and some of it die down eventually, if the people practicing it feel suffocated. So, it is not truly something that has to be put in a glass case. It is not that kind of preservation. Now back to my argument, why are we preserving culture in the first place? And why is there a need to do so in this generation? And how do we do this preservation of culture? Let's first take an example of why preserving culture would likely benefit people today, rather than destroying it or disabling it in the society. In most Asian countries, dressing into proper clothes is an ethic as well as culture, and it is defined as wearing conservative clothing (e. g. long skirts, pants, T-shirt, sleeved blouses, etc. ). Now take a picture wherein the call of modernity dictates the opposite, wherein the corresponding attire should be as short as possible. I am not hinting that everyone should wear what their grandmothers and grandfathers wore during their times, but I'm giving emphasis to the loss of the very value protected by this culture accompanied by the total acceptance of this new way of dressing. When we talk about wearing the proper clothes, we are trying to evaluate the personality; the feminine and masculine modesty. The way we dress is the way we express ourselves, and it portrays the attitude we are living with. Certain get-ups hint on the wrong side of being liberated, which in turn displays a type of disregard toward other values associated with it. This is something that we need to protect, and does not need sanctions or laws to be accomplished. In every kind of society we uphold a certain culture for a certain value that we would like the people to embody even how many years have passed. To my second level of argument, why is there a need to call for preservation of culture in this generation? As we all know, culture is a good description of ethics, in which our new transactions seem to lack today. By preserving culture, which I would describe in my third argument, we are likely to possess ideals that would make us better and more productive individuals. A law can never be implemented without displaying ethics that most of the people uphold to be very vital, because we are philosophical beings who try to value life and how we do with it in our own ways. We can never create a utopia, but let's be positive that by having cultures preserved can make this world a social-friendly one. Connecting these arguments leads to my final one. How do we preserve culture in the present? There's no urgent need to play the roles that our ancestors did just to maintain culture. Let's just say that these were the media that they formed to express it. And in our modern times, we have our own. As what I'm saying in this whole argument, culture is an enactment of protecting values. We can develop several alternatives to preserve culture that would not hamper any of our activities. Like in my example a while ago, the culture of conservative dressing can still be portrayed by being modest in some 'bearable' ways; maybe not only in dressing decently but by uttering good words, too. There are many ways to preserve culture that would make us guided and freer at the same time!