Does change in religion automatically lead to change in Culture?

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Re: Does change in religion automatically lead to change in Culture?

@muqawwee123

Is the culture related to region or religion?

Have religions got universal culture for all the regions? say, how will you define Islamic Culture? Is the Islamic culture as followed in Malaysia is at par with culture followed in Saudi Arabia?

Yes. Change in religion does change culture. Take languages like Kashmiri for example, after natives converted they started using 1000s of loan words from persian and arabic in Kashmiri. This was done by the muslims. The usage of many words is different for Pandits and Muslims.. The muslims adapted the arabic script and pandits kept the original Sharada and devanagari script. That way many original words are lost for ever. Change in language is change in culture. Same with Sindhi, it was originally written in a form of Sharada script and then Devanagar. Now I think only Indian Sindhis who migrated use devanagari in their writing. So language which is an important cultural component changed with change in religion. The muslim areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh were buddhisht dominated regions with some hindus, zoroastrian and animist tribes before the arrival of Islam. What part of buddhist culture do you see there even today as practiced by the people or has the change of culture been complete w.r.t Buddhism?