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2 ´Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its
symbols include a group's skills, knowledge,
attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of
the symbols are learned and deliberately
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2 Ôhat causes cultural change? Outside influences,

through a process known as cultural diffusion, may
stimulate cultural change.
2 An example of this is commercial or cross-cultural
contacts like the Silk Road, which brought silk to the
Ôest and Buddhism into China.
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we can say that Pakistani culture till its late

seventies was a combination of three major
influences
2 Arabic Tribal Culture

2 The Indian Culture or Subcontinent Culture

2 British or Babo Culture


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2 Pakistani culture has changed and evolved in
recent times specially in last 15-20 years
2 Recent decades have seen the emergence of a
middle class in cities like Karachi, Lahore,
Rawalpindi, Hyderabad, Faisalabad, and
Peshawar that wish to move in a more liberal
direction on the other hand
2 northwestern regions bordering Afghanistan
that remain highly conservative and dominated
by centuries-old regional tribal customs.
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2 In the early years after independence, the urban theater was
limited to dramas in colleges and universities and occasional
visiting troupes, performing mostly Shakespeare·s plays
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2 Storytelling, usually interspersed with singing and instrumental
accompaniment, is an ancient art
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2 The oldest form of puppetry in Pakistan is the ½
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2 Since the 1980s, artists have used the form of
alternative, or protest theater to examine
contemporary issues and encourage social
change.
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2 ´Pakistan never had a formal theater of its ownµ Rahat
Kazmi,
2 we are a country which enjoys dastaan-gohi, puppetry,
mimicry and improvisation
2 we have also made a mistake by putting our complete effort
in form of Raffi peer, Dr Anwar Sajjad and Zia Muhudin
trying to establish theater which has no roots
2 Talat Hussain said that tamashbeeni culture which we
have got now is taken from the bhund and merasi culture
2 but never owned it in our egos that·s why ´people who have
no clue what they are doing are running the theater circuit
in Pakistanµ.
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2 Theater in Pakistan was never that popular that
it can bring a significant impact on the larger
population mind set but it had supported
Tamashbeeni culture in our society
2 Easily seen in our daily life that nothing
provokes us to stand ´against or forµ and this has
strengthen the collective stagnancy of our society
and thus I called it ´Tamashbeeniµ.