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Q.
When a country develops its technology, the traditional skills and ways of life die out. It is pointless to try and keep them alive. Do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
A.
Technology plays a key role in modern countries and they always try to develop it better and better. While I accept it is giving a lot of benefits, I believe that traditional skills and ways of life are important and they never become expired skills.
Nowadays, most of the countries cannot operate their activities well without technology because it helps nations to fulfill society prosperous. All government sectors such as military, economic, and industry use it to support their occupations. When national security in a country is not supported by modern technology, it will make a nation in dangerous condition, for instance war attacking and cyber crime. Besides, business and industry projects cannot run well without technology because they use it for all activities. If production process does not use machines and worker’s tasks are not executed with modern equipments, such as computer, laptop, printer, internet, and telephone, economy activities in a country will not be stable. That is why government always develops technology more perfect than before.
Technology existence makes traditional skills and ways of life die out slowly. Only a few people care and trying to keep them alive because some societies think both of them are not practical. Most of the citizens do not realize that not all activities can give perfect result if they use technology. Traditional skills and ways of life are important to keep originality of art and culture because they are part of nation identity. For example some clothing companies in Indonesia produce Batik dress using machine to make a pattern. The result will be different if Batik is made by weaver, people who have painting skill to draw a motif on Batik. Handmade product which is made by traditional skill will be more beautiful and have high value than using technology. Besides, people who have cooking skill, especially traditional food, will not use all modern tools such as mixer and electric oven because they want to keep delicious and original tastes.
In conclusion, there are convincing arguments both for and against technology and traditional skills, but I think that traditional skills are very useful and never be left by people.