November Monthly Blog

Where do these traditions come from in different cultures? Who decides that the society as a whole will do these things they are told to do? Most of the abnormal traditions began when they were passed down by word of mouth, so they could of been changed as they have been passed down. Normally these traditions are passed down from parents to children and so on. Or a higher power tells their people that they must do this from now on. For example, the Callatians ate their dead fathers. What did they gain by doing that? A higher power must of told them that they will gain something spiritually if they did. But then the Greeks began the tradition of cremation which is still going on today. Nobody eats their dead fathers that I know of. As a society we are forced to believe and act out these traditions we are told.Another example is the shape of the earth. Some societies believe the earth is flat, however our society and other societies believe it is round. Our society knows it is round because we have have seen it when people went to space. The people that believe the earth is flat might not be able to go to space so they are going off from what they were told and what they know. If I was not told that the earth was round I would think it is flat because the ground is flat. Our society has more advantages than other societies. Societies should not judge other societies on their beliefs, weather they are good or bad. This is what they were taught and they don't know any better. They could think what our society is doing is wrong. I feel this argument is a contradiction because Hitler obviously did not like Jews since he killed 6 million of them. He learned from somewhere that Jews were bad people and believed that. Now we can't say Hitler is a bad person if that is his belief of is it different because the Nazis are not a society? I think that there should be a line drawn on what is cultural and what is personal.