Traditions? When We Look at Essay

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And because of widespread exposure to Western traditions, many people around the world -- especially the youth -- start adopting Western traditions which ipso facto leads to partially quitting local traditions. An imported tradition replaces the existing local one. Therefore, many public figures around the world today act defensively, by banning Western TV channels, publicly condemning globalization, or emphasizing the importance of local traditions because they believe the loss of traditions means the loss of identity (Galeota). Intellectuals start worrying that the loss of traditions will lead to forgetting local histories and having a different future.

Traditions we follow sometimes may not be rooted in local histories. As Giddens explains in his analysis of traditions, "[m]uch of what we think of as traditional, and steeped in the mists of time, is actually a product at most of the last couple of centuries, and is often much more recent than that" (37). That is because sometimes governments invent traditions to instill a sense of shared identity among people they represent.

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But again governments do so because they understand that people need traditions to make sense of their identity. This is also true of people who follow mixed traditions and have mixed identities. An eleven-year-old Greek American girl who grew up in the United States but follows many Greek cultural as well as American traditions was asked: "What do you like most about being Greek American?" She answered: "I like having an identity that makes me a little different" (Chorlian).

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