Culture and traditions don't come in 200 ml bottle sizes with suggestions of what they go best with, leaving the mixing and matching to us. They come in whole specific-brand supermarkets, where it's kept all in the same family. It's a whole Universes that's all contained in and you have everything you're supposed to need, if you follow the rule book to the tee. Anything else is treachery, that we spare no expense crying about. We chastise, traumatize and cull anything else—what we otherwise call moral policing. The treachery is inevitable when old ideas meet different ones. Unless we're busy getting enraged about it and screaming treason, cultural interaction is an ongoing experiment in which the older habits die hard, if we let them. Over time, our ways solidify and become tradition which becomes our ways which becomes our culture. It is a spectrum that goes from mild to hard core, with the hard core se...
A corner of the Universe where this inconspicuous observer makes notes about a strange world and a bunch of things it represents.