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16 Examples of Traditional Culture

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Traditional culture are shared experiences that are transferred from generation to generation. This can exist at the level of a nation or community and can transcend borders. The following are illustrative examples of traditional culture.

Norms

Norms are informal, unwritten rules that govern social behaviors. For example, it is unthinkable to wear shoes in the home in Japan.

Languages

Languages change slowly with new words and conventions being added on an ongoing basis but are primarily an element of traditional culture that people first learn from their parents, grandparents, siblings and peers.

Festivals

Traditional events that celebrate some aspect of community culture, beliefs or history.

Rituals & Ceremony

A procedure that has symbolic meaning and importance often marking a rite of passage.

Holidays

Days that celebrate or commemorate an event, culture, belief or change of season.

Pastimes

Pastimes are things that people do for enjoyment such as sports, hobbies and recreation. These often have a history such that people enjoy them as children and then pass them on to their children.

Food

The cultivation, selection, preparation and appreciation of food passes from one generation to the next. This includes traditional fine dining and proper social meals as well as foods that are associated with holidays, pastimes and recreation such as ice cream on a hot summer day.

Fashion

Fashion tends to change quickly such that many cultures have transitioned to a model whereby daily clothing is provided by the global fashion industry. Nevertheless, traditional clothing is often preserved as an element of culture associated with holidays, rituals, professions and pastimes.

Architecture

Traditional architecture including preservation of historical structures and the use of traditional materials, construction techniques and architectural designs for new buildings.

Craft

Production of things in a traditional way as a trade, domestic work or hobby.

Traditional Economy

Traditional means of production, distribution and economic exchange.

Lifestyle

A traditional way of living on a day-to-day basis in areas such as work, relaxation, transportation and social interaction.

Belief

The way that communities traditionally interpret life including religion, philosophy, narrative, symbols, ideas and values.

Knowledge

Any pervasive knowledge that survives across multiple generations can be considered a tradition.

Art

The expression of human creative imagination. Art typically has well established traditions that are continually challenged by each successive generation. Successful challenges become the tradition.

Music

Music traditions include musical notation, theory, elements, instruments, styles and folklore. As with art, each generation tends to challenge things such that music traditions evolve with time. In other words, music traditions are living and emergent as opposed to static and historical.

Summary

The following are common examples of traditional culture.

Overview

Overview: Traditional Culture
Type
Definition
Shared experiences that are transferred from generation to generation.
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