Heritage is what we have inherited from our previous generations.It may be in tangible form or intangible form.
The tangible form may be some artifact, any wealth, any jewel or any other thing.The intangible form of heritage may be some skillset you have acquired which is very very rare among other people.So most of the times, we try to conserve it, refine it and pass it on to the next generations.The most important reason for its conservation and keeping it alive is that we know that if it is an skill or intangible heritage then it must be very very refined as it has gone through so many skilled people of previous generations. If it is a tangible form of heritage, then it defines the thought process of previous generation as well as carries the elegance and nostalgia of past.Similar to family heritage, we also inherit few things which we should tag as National heritage.The National Heritage comprises of monument, our literature, ancient discoveries, knowledge, art forms, customs and traditions.Like our family heritage, our national heritage also defines our identity across the globe.
Unlike any other specie of nature, we humans have developed all over the globe simultaneously.The journey of growth of civilization though started in Africa, later on some of the prehistoric human tribes scattered in different regions of the globe and grew as per the climatic conditions at that particular region.They developed different social, cultural and engineering skills.Their physical attributes too differ because of the difference in geographical regions.For example, the people in Europe are fairer because of lesser production of skin pigment melanin in their body than those who stay near equator.Similarly you will find that the people have developed different food habits and cuisines as per their body requirement at that particular geographical locations.So over those thousands years of human development journey, each race of humans have developed different socio-cultural environment.They have developed different sciences.For example, the Homeopathy medical science developed in Germany while Ayurveda ruled India. So we can deduce that each nation or region has separate heritage for which, definitely its citizens are proud of.
But now with the advent of new era of business and trade, a very big economy is flourishing on the heritage which comprises of lots and lots of things like language, cuisines, fashion,etc. In a century of globalization, when there is intermingling of all kind of people there is a threat to the heritage of people with less population and lesser wealth.The new tools of business like advertisement and marketing will provide the strength to races to grow their heritage importance which will definitely be threat to the races which have lesser tools to market their heritage.Definitely this is going to be a big race, where each race want to showcase their superiority over other races.When Luteyn was building New Delhi, he just passed most of the bad comments for the mughal architectures which we indians feel proud of.When he saw "Tajmahal", then only he commented that he can't believe that so untidy and unskillful people can develop a good monument.So in this era i feel it is more and more important to protect the national heritage which is our identity too.We must understand its significance as it has passed through so many generations and after so many sacrifices.We should respect the devotion and hard-work of our forefathers.
