decline in communal living

The traditional way of living of a group of people is an important component of one’s culture in all society. Culture refers to the way of life of the members of a society or groups within a society in where communal living is highly and clearly practised. The traditional way of life of which most people practiced and are encouraged to adapt in its societies’ norms, values, virtues and ways of living is one of a definite element of daily living perspective in Pacific societies. “This form of living is very common in most parts of the Pacific where most people are bound to be together with their traditions”. Yet, it has been noticed that communal living or traditional life of the societies is slowly declining .This essay will discuss the major reason for the decline in communal life in the Pacific, reasons that can be summarised as westernisation, economic and social reasons.
The first of these is, westernisation which has two major aspects: lifestyle, and religion. Westernisation has provoke major changes and pose a lot of threats to the maintenance of communal living. These are shown in a lot of Pacific’s people attitude today. “Strong influence of western culture has changed the lifestyle of most people in many pacific countries, whereby some people prefer by those of western countries do. For example, many Fijian village were having an intentional community of people living together and sharing common interest in the society such as special gathering in villages where there is a new born baby or eating together when a big feast is held, however, today those traditions are no longer practised, thus, the influence of western culture has changed the communal of the Pacific.”