Upholding traditions

Adhering to customs and beliefs handed down from generation to generation.

1. Respect for tradition conserves the values, knowledge and achievements of those who built civilization.

1. Change has been so rapid in this century that the wisdom of past generations is often inapplicable or irrelevant.

2. Traditionalism is frequently used to block people from affirming changes which are inevitable.

1. Upholding
2. Retaining
3. Preserving
4. Holding

1. Upholding traditional family patterns
2. Supporting traditional industries
3. Rehearsing collective legal tradition
4. Preserving traditional working patterns
5. Preserving traditional social structures in rural areas
6. Preserving traditional personal names
7. Preserving traditional lifestyle
8. Preserving significance of cultural tradition
9. Focusing on traditional technologies
10. Establishing patterns of sexuality
11. Establishing cultural expectations of gender functions
12. Cultivating common history appreciation

1. Protecting dietary taboos
2. Developing historic cohesion of government

1. Transforming traditional cultural patterns

1. Providing alternative to traditionalism
2. Having flexible cultural patterns
3. Challenging present and future forms

1. Undetermined procedures for adapting tradition-bound cultures
2. Traditionalism
3. Restrictive social practices

1. Tradition-bound