Baano (B/A), April 23, GNA- A Canada-based Ghanaian, Madam Margaret Takyiwaa Amponsah, has advised the youth to shun "unwholesome" Western culture, which could affect their development.

She cautioned them against dressing obscenely that according to her was synonymous to indecent exposure, alien to Ghana's culture and flouted the country's criminal code.

Madam Amponsah gave the advice when she presented 40 pairs of uniform to Crusaders of the Catholic Youth Organisation (CYO) of St John's Catholic Church, at Baano in Jaman South District of the Brong-Ahafo Region.

She expressed regret that many youth perceived every foreign culture exhibited on the television or on video clips as real and a new fashion that should be imitated.

Madam Takyiwaa said, "Many boys and girls think any kind of dressing seen in foreign films and on video clips, or any immoral activity was the acceptable norm".

She cautioned the youth that they would live to regret such misconduct as the repercussions would bring untold hardship to them, their families and the nation as a whole."

Madam Takyiwaa explained that there were decent and chaste youth in Canada, Europe and the United States of America, thus the indecent dressing, armed robbery, thefts, drug addiction and prostitution seen in foreign films and video clips only portrayed unwholesome and unacceptable practices in those places.

In a sermon Reverend Father Paul Ameyaw, parish priest of Saint Peter and Saint Paul Parish at Kwasibuorkrom, admonished the congregation to remain faithful and protect the creed and doctrine of the Catholic Church.

Senior Crusader Apraku Simon, organizing secretary of the CYO at Kwasibuorkrom, expressed the organisation's appreciation to Madam Amponsah for the gesture.