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    "content": "almost the age of my father, when I meet him, I should look at him as a father. When you look at the children of today, none of them will actually respect their elders. So it is important that if we want to improve the quality of our children, we have to inculcate our cultural practices and complement that with modern culture. If we do not do that, then it means we are going to lose the future generation. The other point I wanted to bring up is that in our modern society today, when we give birth to children, we name them after great people in the world today. For example, if I give birth to a child today I will name him after Obama, after a famous singer and so on. During our generation, we used to name them after our great grandparents. Where I come from, we name children depending on the environment or the time they are born. This has all completely changed because we have forgotten our culture. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other point that I want to bring into this discussion is that you will find that our children today cannot even speak their own vernacular language. It is really challenging. Sometimes, if you ask a child who the father is, they cannot go beyond the second or third generation in their line. This means that we are completely forgetting where we have come from. It is important that if we want to bring up patriotic Kenyans, then we have to teach them about our culture and how we used to behave and relate to each other. This Motion is very important if we must bring up patriotic Kenyans to this world. We need to teach our young ones about our culture, how we used to behave and how we used to relate to each other. I believe that the Department of Sports and Culture has been allocated some Funds. I feel that it is important for that Department to go back to the society, encourage and support the ceremonies that we used to have in the olden days. Some communities, a very good example is Garba Tulla, have a particular period where they all go back home to witness people getting married. However, these days, you will find that every Christmas, every family wants to go to Mombasa where they can swim or go to Zanzibar where they can visit historical sites. So, it is important for the Department of Culture to put down its foot and encourage communities to sustain their cultural practices and celebrate the ceremonies they have. Another point is that we used to have authors who would write about particular communities and their practices. I think this is dying out. So, all these need to be brought back. Generations that come after us should have books they can refer to and learn what our parents used to do. If we do not do that, we will lose the coming generations to crime as the Mover of the Motion said. Mr. Temporary Speaker, last, we need to encourage culturally responsive teaching in schools. We should introduce this in the school curricula so that as children grow up, they learn and practice their culture. This is a very important Motion. Unfortunately, we do not have many people who are supporting it. However, we need to take it seriously. I fully support and second the Motion."
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