Personality characteristics vocational preferences study habits and academic achievement of Kashmiri Dogri and Ladakhi adolescent girls A cross cultural study

Abstract

Cultural diversity is a fact in the world we live and it has been a fact throughout the past history of humanity and closer to us in time in the process of development and explanation of the modern nation states and the modern capitalist economy A process which has systematically revised geographical patterns of mankind destroyed traditional frontiers and regional divisions and has brought together as free or forced collaborators as equal or un equal partners or as competitors people from four corners of the planet The development of modern capitalism has to a new and accelerated stage the historical newlineprocess of contracts and has contributed to the gradual unification of the many under an increasingly interdependent world market However the fact of cultural diversity is not accompanied by the consiouness of diversity that is the understanding of the historical formation and the role of diversity in culture As for as the state of Jammu and Kashmir is concerned it is a unique geographical entity It is well endowed in renewable natural resources Its mighty rivers evergreen forests snow covered peaks invigorating climate and humane population are unparalleled in the country newline