ethnic customs
Heritage-based group rituals
Ethnic customs are the traditional practices, rituals, and behaviors associated with a particular cultural or national group.
The phrase appears most often in discussions of heritage preservation, immigration, or multicultural societies: The festival celebrates the ethnic customs of the region's immigrant communities.
Wedding ceremonies, holiday observances, and food traditions are typical examples.
- rites of passageCeremonies marking major transitions
- coming of ageReaching adult status
- oral storytellingTransmitting tales aloud
- elder wisdomInsight from long experience
- traditional garmentsClothing from cultural heritage
folk dances · traditional recipes · funeral rites · wedding traditions · initiation ceremonies · birth rituals · embroidery patterns · proverbs · ancestor worship · blessing ceremonies · harvest celebrations · food taboos · musical instruments · creation myths · naming conventions · religious holidays · feast days · sacred texts
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, national heritage, archive, monument
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- tribal lawtribal courts, tribal law, tribal court, tribal sovereignty, tribal governance
ethnic customscodified laws
Formally recorded legal rules
statutory requirements · bureaucratic procedures · corporate policies · legal mandates · modern innovations
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