I understand what you are trying to say Kiddo. We can look and learn from other cultures. But we should not forget our own and we should in fact emphasize on it . That was my point. My observations about Nepal in the past few years has been that it is losing whatever is left of its identity. We as a country with so many ethnic groups have not been able to come up with one single identity that can represent us. What brings us nepalese together? What is that one thing that we all nepalese celebrate? Is there one single language we prefer to speak while still preserving our dialects? If we nepalese do not unify under one distinct culture, one distinct language, everything cultural we have known to exist within our frontiers will disappear. India is a powerful country. It has a very wide sphere of influence with its TV channels and movies. Hardly anyone watches nepalese television or listens to nepalese songs. Very few read nepalese literature or magazines. Newer generation prefer eating pizza, burger, naan, paneer etc and there has not been any significant effort to popularize traditional nepalese cuisine from different ethnic groups. Nepalese language has been polluted with vocabularies from other languages. It is a sad observation. May be I am pessimist but if it goes on like this, in few generations, the language we have come to know as "Nepali" will disappear, the culture we have come to know as "nepali" will disappear. And the culture is our identity.