The Importance Of Cultural Traditions

Every culture has its own belief systems, values, and traditions that are important and related to the history of its people. The Yoruban Culture is one that is close to nature and believes that life, death, and ancestry are closely linked. The concept of life, death, and family plays a big role in the play Death of the King’s Horsemen, by Wole Soyinka. It starts when the king dies and Elesin Oba has to sacrifice himself to fulfill his duties as the king’s horseman. The Pilkings, a European family

Anzac – script The Anzac tradition is fundamental to the Australian identity, and has evolved into a pervasive conflation of national values that recognises soldiers who fought in all wars, in particular, the 1915-16 Gallipoli campaign. Although the Gallipoli Campaign was deemed a disaster, the Anzac tradition was conceptualised, surpassing war memory, to pave the way for a nascent national identity to emerge. Additionally, this tradition has harmonised to form an indispensible aspect of Australian

people have many cultural values and meanings that can help teach and guide others. In his book Earth Elder Stories: The Pinayzitt Path, Alexander Wolfe’s includes three stories “The Sound of Dancing,” “The Orphan Children,” and “Grandfather Buffalo,” that reveal important Anishinaabe cultural values. In the story “The Sound of Dance,” the value of family sacrifice is shown as a strong Anishinaabe cultural value. In the story “The Orphan Children,” Wolfe expresses the importance of orally transmitted

of established traditions and new influences. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the country’s original inhabitants, created the foundation for the land’s cultural traditions over 40,000 years ago. In addition, the rest of Australia’s people are migrants or descendants of migrants from various other countries who transported their own customs, beliefs, and value systems to the land. As a result, Australia’s culture has significantly broadened its social and cultural profile over

issue of cultural identity. The controversy concerning tradition and cultural expectation is becoming increasingly fierce. Is it necessary to change one’s own cultural identity in order to fit the working environment and blend into the new society? How do people’s intrinsic cultural identities affect their new lives? Should the way of preserving cultural tradition be altered? How individuals’ cultural expectation influence their attitudes of redefining traditions? Will redefining tradition result

people who all have different beliefs and traditions, as well as their own unique set of beliefs regarding their healthcare practices. One such group is the Hispanic Americans who have their own very diverse cultural group. As individuals, they are just like anybody else in any other culture. However, it is worthwhile for a nurse caring for someone from this culture to know what their distinct cultural beliefs are. People belonging to a Hispanic cultural group are highly attached to the beliefs and

while close to a quarter claim no religious affiliation.” Although many U.S. adults still believe in God, I think it is very sad that the number of believers has dropped over a short period of time. Being a believer of God is very important to my cultural beliefs. My family and I are strong believers to the Christian religion. Every Saturday evening my family and I attend church. Not only is church important to the adults in my family, but it is also important to the children as well. Children are

Jessica He Modern Family DeCal 26 November 2017 Modern Family Final: Cultural Differences Modern Family is a sitcom that first aired in 2009 that focuses on many prevalent issues including cultural differences in families. The US was a nation founded upon immigration and now embraces the term as “melting pot” (National Review). The Pew Research Center reports that currently about ten percent of children are mixed race (VOA News). Many children have the influence of two or more cultures within their

analysis of how Chapters 8 and 9 explore the connection between culture, food and community The interdependent connection between culture, food and community is pivotal in the demonstration of the importance Vietnamese tradition in Paradise of the Blind. Chapters eight and nine focus on the importance of culture through family particularly evident in the way food acts as an expression of this culture. Food is also used to establish a sense of community, which is an important aspect in the Vietnamese

My Cultural Identity I was born and raised in the Cayman Islands. Although my home is located in the Caribbean, which in itself has a specific culture, I more closely identify with the unique aspects of the Caymanian culture. Culture is defined by Juang and Matsumoto (2011) as, “a unique meaning and information system, shared by a group and transmitted across generations, that allows the group to meet basic needs of survival, pursue happiness and well-being, and derive meaning from life” (p. 15)