community tradition
Local inherited practice
A community tradition is a custom or practice shared and maintained by a group over time—a neighborhood's annual block party, a church's holiday pageant, a town's Fourth of July parade.
These traditions create continuity and identity, connecting current members to those who came before: The harvest festival is a beloved community tradition dating back generations.
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- customHabitual group practice
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- town squareCentral civic space
block party · roots · belonging · festival · elders · ancestry · founding fathers · folklore · passing down · family recipe · celebration · neighborhood · bonds · ceremony · kinship · legacy · village · storytelling
community traditioninnovation
Creating something original
radical change · novelty · disruption · modernization · progressive reform
community traditioncultural erasure
Destroying group identity markers
assimilation · modernization · social upheaval · iconoclasm · revolution
community traditionatomization
Reduction to fine particles
social isolation · alienation · anomie · disconnection · rootlessness
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