Culture,belief and traditions. Do you still practice them?

you can say that again,man. my major is sociology and the phenomenon you have mentioned is just what i have beeng studing. i am from china ,chinese culture used to affect Korea and japan a lot and now they keep many parts of the culture of ancient china meanwhile we chinese discard them .for instance ,ancient chinese kneel down and kowtow to the elders to show their respect .now we dont do that anymore but japnese and korean do .that's a good traditon but we abondon it ,what a pity.

There are traditions which we can ignore and there are which we don't have options but to conform with. Everytime there's an occasion, it's our tradition to always bring something, gift or money to the host or hostess. If we don't have anything to bring, we'll not attend. There's also this absurd tradition that we can't take a bath or comb our hair if there's a wake. I don't comply. I always take a bath. My parents and relatives always got furious when we don't comply.

I have seen many changes over the years and one tradition that has changed a lot in the United States is asking the fathers permission to marry the girl. My husband talked to my father; however, many of my friends married without asking for the females hand in marriage. The biggest change I see many people live together and have children without getting married. I'm married and believe a marriage can be successful for a life time; however, you have to be willing to work on your marriage listening to the other person and actually spend time together doing some activities. You can't have your way all the time and sometimes your going to have to admit your wrong. That isn't easy.

I am from Indonesia, and we have many ethnics here which still believe or use some traditions or superstitious beliefs. As we live in modern era now, some of them are not applicable anymore, especially when related to health matters. For instance, we believe that new born babies should be wrapped all the time with cloth all over his body, in order not to get him cold. I don't think it's practicable anymore, since we live in a tropical country, where it's getting hot every time now. Another tradition that I observe not practicable anymore in my ethnic is that whenever we have this family gathering, like baby shower, or house warming, everyone should give advice or say some words to the person(s) who celebrate it! It is not very efficient, since everyone is saying the same thing, LOL. Now, I think people are thinking the same way as I am, we sometimes say that it is enough to have one representative from each family to do it. The bottom line is that we should keep the traditions alive, but if it's no longer practicable, we should not do it anymore :).

i dont know what tradition we had as i grown up doing what we want to do and not by following certain tradition, though i guess other country still following it. i am still happy following what i want to do and not because of certain tradition.. though when it comes to belief yes i we still following Christmas and Lenten and we always do.

Here in the Philippines we do have a lot of traditions and belief that we don't practice anymore.In my own observation most of the guys here in our country forget to be gentleman(maginoo)specially in riding a bus or MRT/LRT(train)my grand parents will tell me boys in their generation is so gentleman unlike nowadays even an old woman is standing or even pregnant woman they won't bother to give their sits they just stare at them and I felt sad about it.I just hope that boys will realize that haist!

Adopting culture now-a-days is not much possible but whenever the need we should adopt then only at least some satfisfaction we will receive from our mind.Following the tradition may be hard but it never gives any wrong thoughts when you followed it in a positive way.