Engaging Our Traditions
Posted on : Jun-Sun-2010 | By : dtager | In : Outside Articles
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By Amanda Vuke
This week’s “Daily Journal” guest columnist is Amanda Vuke, Research Intern for the John Locke Foundation and Intern for Carolina Journal.
It is everywhere. We may not live in Anatevka (think Fiddler on the Roof), but tradition still impacts us daily. We have little traditions that few people know about, like the routine we follow every morning or the way we manage our frustration when that person took our parking space again.
Then there are the traditions that affect other people and are shared with them, like the food everyone always brings to a family reunion, or that movie you watch every time you visit your grandparents. Some traditions happen only in particular places, like the meal you always buy from a particular restaurant, or what you do in your favorite town. Most traditions follow us around, though, and we pass them on.
