Hello, dear Steemians!
Tradition is an important and undeniable part of our human society. Cultures hold their values together by the glue of tradition and work their way to preserve such values with the utmost respect and devotion.
But young people and newer generations often find it difficult to respect some of our oldest traditional standpoints and often act rebellious in face of tradition.
How much respect do we owe tradition?
If you respect tradition, you will be highly venerated in your own society. People see themselves as heir to the legacy of rich traditions, especially old people who would go to great lengths to preserve these traditions.
But if you have ever wondered if you should respect tradition, then you need to understand one truth: Tradition should be respected, so long as it supports your independence of thought and common sense.
Some traditions essentially do not make any sense, and it is pointless to give them an amount of respect that they simply do not deserve, for the mere sake of being tradition.
Because traditions themselves should not be of any value. What should matter is the value of the work itself, and not the tradition. I will make my point by telling you a story.
There was once a king who lived in a great castle. The castle had a courtyard guarded by many watchmen day and night. One day, he was taking a walk in the courtyard when he saw a watchman standing guard near a bench.
The king thought to himself. Every guard in the courtyard had a purpose for being there.
For example, two guards stood near the gates, and two guards stood near the doors of the palace. Another guard followed the king wherever he went.
So, he wondered, ‘What is the purpose of the guard standing next to the bench?’
The commander of the watchmen was brought before the king to answer the question.
He did not know why. He told the king that in the last 30 years, there has always been a guard standing near that bench.
They went to the previous commander and asked him why there was a guard near the bench. The commander thought for a moment, then recalled a memory from the olden days.
‘Your father had ordered the castle to be painted, my king.’ The commander said, ‘And you were just a child then, and used to play in the courtyard. So, for two days, we positioned a guard there to stop you from sitting on the chair and get yourself dirty with paint.’
The moral point of that story is basically some of the things that we do because people that came before us used to do them, but we do not have any reasonable explanation for doing them.
Tradition is a powerful aspect of culture, but it should not be exploited to the point of utter lunacy and ridicule.
It is not just about traditions. Take a look at everything you feel compelled to do because the people that came before you used to do them. Is that a reasonable justification for you to do things that you may not want to do?
Think about your predispositions and your commitment to tradition.
Often enough, we find that we have pointlessly bound our life by things that do not really matter.
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I agree with this
And even when it comes to our independent thought we have to be fully aware of the fact that we function within a society that has become more global and interconnected. Sometimes what we take as "independent thought" may collide with societal norms, in which case we have to evaluate if it makes sense to hold a thought or tradition that creates conflict (especially in the case of family traditions).
The story of the king reminded me of a certain dish that my great grand mother used to prepare and she did it separating the mix in two pots. When asked why, she'd only say that that's how she learned to do it. Eventually it was discovered that the reason was because it was a big family back in the days and one pot was not enough. And yet she kept doing it in two pots even though the mix was small and was meant for just a few people.
I think that the obssessive respect some people have for the past or the elders must always be balanced against the pros and cons of perpetuating traditions just because we are said so.
In some countries, for instance people stone women to death for the stupidest reasons or gang-rape them or mutilate them just because that is the "traditional" punishment.
This are some of those instances where common sense was just thrown out of the window.
Like laws, traditions may be just(tifiable) and unjust(tifiable) and we should be reasonable enough to choose when to abide either.
Totally according to your view. We must abhor traditions that attempt against gender and human dignity.
Ciertamente no podemos ser indiferentes bajo ningún concepto sobre estos actos de lesa humanidad @yaleal.....
Traditions connect us to our society, families and culture. Tradition gives us identity. As long as these traditions give us joy, pride and sustain some worthy cultural value, it is important to respect them.
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It is necessary to respect tradition because there is a a reason behind everything. So respect everything what ever belongs to history.
Definitely we should respect traditions but unfortunately in these days our focus only on new development and we are destroying traditions. Thanks @chbartist for this lovely post and I also want to become part of your community please help
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@chbartist however their are some technological changes have been made,
but we must respect our traditions because it is the tradition which gives us a identity.
There are traditions, which sometimes generate stress but for the simple act of respect we force ourselves to continue. :(
I think tradition and culture are part of life and we should carry forward with us to the next generation. Traditions are to celebrate the time with people. But but traditions and culture should not be force on us. Whoever wants to the part of it then okay and start following it but who doesn't want to be part of it, it shouldn't be the case when people are forcing him to follow. Thanks friend @chbartist for writing nice post. Have a great weekend.
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I love the perspective that story gives, thank you for sharing. It can be so easy to limit our own growth based on previous traditions that we keep. Fantastic post as per usual! Positive thoughts for a great day!
very interesting and instructive block, you certainly need a lot of work and effort to prepare something like that professionally ... thank you
@chbartist our tradition is our identity . Its present us front of whole world . If it will affect to peoples they will follow and respect to and we like any other country tradition then we will try to follow because its vice-versa . so give respect and take respect .
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings.
Tradition and culture most important part of our society and life for responsible person.
Culture set custom and value traditions human Social and norms.
Here is beautiful story sharing.
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Ciertamente que las tradiciones estàn estrechamente relacionadas con el aspecto cultural e idiosincracia de cada poblaciòn, regiòn, paìs en todo el mundo. Es por eso que las traciones beben explicarse y entenderse para conocer la razòn de ser de cada tradiciòn con respecto a cada paìs. En la medida que las tradiciones se propaguen y perduren por años en una regiòn, hacen que cada generaciòn se interese y se compenetre con las manifestaciones culturales y por ende terminan involucràndose con conocimiento amplio de la razòn de cada tradiciòn y el por què en esa regiòn.
Dear @chbartist
Our traditions, culture, costumes, language and religion give us recognition in this world. It is the duty of every citizen to respect the traditions of our country because it gives us freedom in the tradition. The decent behavior of any person is a sign of the culture of that country. Regrettably, our new generation feels these traditions as a burden. Instead of accepting the old traditions, our youth class is giving more importance to new traditions such as Valentine's Day, Teddy Day, Friendship Day, Chocolate Day etc. This distortion is particularly widespread in urban areas. That day is not far away when old traditions will become extinct from this world.
Today needs to preserve and promote old traditions so that the younger generation can understand their moral values.
Thank you for spreading learning
A very interesting article @chbartist and tradition is a mechanism for the reproduction of social institutions and norms; the transmission of spiritual values from generation to generation; public relations, characterized by a certain historical stability, repeatability, community. The traditions established in society, reflecting the objective conditions of its existence, express the continuity in public life and consolidate in themselves its most stable moments. Traditions show past life in the present and the future. The existence of traditions, their formation, consolidation, development and disappearance are due to social circumstances, ideas and ideals of people. As you can see, our traditions are very diverse and it is necessary to observe them of course, but until a certain moment, as long as it is useful and traditions cannot help our thinking, then their meaning becomes useless!
Some traditions just came up as a product of ignorance. Indeed, we should respect and uphold the value of such traditions that lift our lives.
Many pointless traditions impede the progress of human lives as encourages much spending for nonsense things.
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I respect traditions of my culture. I actually adore many of them. The problem I've seen is that not only the younger generation don't pay much attention, it's the "outsiders", people from other cultures give criticism mindlessly. That's what I don't know how to handle. I don't want to keep "defending."
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A great overview @chbartist and the word “tradition” comes from the Latin word “transmit”. That is, tradition is something that does not depend on ourselves, this is what we receive from our relatives, ancestors, from the society in which we live, and pass on to our children, our friends, friends, relatives, also in this society. But, traditions can be different and not always they can help us in solving our problems and tasks, which of course we need to take into account and act in these situations regardless of traditions!
Oh yes @chbartist, I completely agree with you that traditions should be observed for a particular situation and if tradition does not help to solve any problem at the moment, then compliance with it becomes useless and you need to switch to your thinking and experience!
Also a great message to remember that we must adapt with change or we could miss opportunities that present themselves give our routines. Traditiona are important but cannot hold you back from progress in what is becoming a borderless world!
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@chbartist, We are living in the times of Advanced Internet and through Internet anyone can explore whatever they want. So younger generation are pursuing what they want. Every change brings change with it, we don't know the development brought good things or bad things, but we have to expect change because Evolution Is Change. Stay blessed.
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Tradition most important part of our society the bound strong relation family and generation.
Tradition + story + beliefs = customs transfer from next generation.
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Saludos @chbartist! Las tradiciones son situaciones que nos conectan con el pasado, generando un entorno de intercambio social y familiar.
En base a lo anterior es importante considerar el beneficio actual de mantener una tradición, ya que puede estar privando la adopción de nuevas practicas, más eficientes y que generan mayor valor agregado a la comunidad que los procesos tradicionales. Es cierto que debemos de mantener nuestra identidad como sociedad, pero no es justo atarnos a practicas ineficientes solo por que es la tradición, ya que esto va en contra de la evolución humana. Feliz día!that is really wonderful. it is rare to hear such thinking from someone this time. you know, my country is rich with culture and traditions of great values. however, those great assets are worn and we could not see it respected especially among the youngsters; mostly due to the so called "civilization" "globalization"...…….
Thanks @Chbartist
Traditions define you. It creates your identity and make who you are today. Ridiculing the tradition is the worst possible way to make fund of the way of life. I believe in Hindu tradition. I also believe that the traditions is for each person to follow. It depends on each individual to take control of the devotion so that you can control yourself in any situation.
Nice topic.
The full article could be found here.
I guess we need to have a mutual respect.
Tradition and modernity play an important and specific role in society.
What would happen if all are modernists?
What would happen if all are traditionalists?
Yeah give respect and take respect
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@chbartist
You always explain things very nicely, what you have said is wonder, we should respect tradition, because I have seen one things about traditional events is that we gather together to celebrate our happiness in this busy life, just imagine if there were no traditional occasions then, we humans would never had time to gather together, never celebrated happiness with neighbors. So tradition brings happiness,
But a tradition should be meaningful, it should bring happiness and bring close people to each other it should spread love, If a traditional is not meaning and it only spread hatred among us or it is celebrated not in a good manner, polluting the environment, then that tradition is useless.
Thanks for such a post, we should learn from you, huge respect for you.
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