Concept in Definition ABC

Cultural assets, historical events and other sociocultural elements that are transmitted orally from generation to generation

Tradition is the communication from generation to generation of the historical events that occurred in a certain place and of all those sociocultural elements that occur in the same.

Mainly, orality is the way in which traditions are transmitted and exist. This situation occurred especially in primitive times when the writing it was not developed and it was only the spoken word the only possible way of communication. Much of the legends and traditions They come from oral tradition and therefore no written documentation of their origin is kept, for example.

That is, all those cultural assets that a generation considers valuable to be rescued and continued Through the ages, and therefore transmits them to the following generations, they constitute the tradition of a country.

The values, beliefs, customs, the ways in which a community expresses itself artistically they are considered traditional and plausible to be communicated to later generations as tradition

This in no way means statism, because the vitality of a tradition depends purely and exclusively of the capacity it has to continue renewing itself and contributing some new elements to the already received.

Folklore expresses the culture of the people

Almost always the tradition, that traditional, coincides one hundred percent with what is popularly called folklore. Folklore is the expression of the culture of a certain people. Typical dances, stories, legends, oral history, superstitions, crafts, among other issues, are faithful representatives of that folklore that we mentioned.

Within folklore four stages are identified: dead (corresponds to an already extinct culture, only preserved in travelers' books, archives, paintings) dying (the The culture in question conserves only some details and elements, the typical one having been lost for strictly demographic reasons, the elderly only conserve it and transmit it to the youngest), alive (it is practiced in everyday life) and nascent (new cultural traits that over time have a chance of becoming tradition).

Most of the traditions that exist in a given nation come from the past of the same, because although as we already mentioned, in the present, there may be popular and widespread practices throughout the populationThey will only be installed and adopted as a tradition over time and several generations have passed. Although today something is practiced a lot, yes or yes, demand the passage of time to be classified as tradition.

Traditions can reach a small nucleus or cover more than one territory

Now, traditions can occur on a local and small level, such is the case of a family For example, it has the tradition of celebrating the New Year in a house by the sea with all the members of that family. Social groups also often develop traditions that are linked to that group's object of union.

And on the other hand there are traditions that are manifested with a greater scope affecting more people and even several territories. For example, a sport as soccer turns out to be a sports tradition in Latin America and is the most widespread practice in this region to the detriment of others such as basketball.
Other examples are found on the Christmas festival where it is a tradition around the world to assemble a little tree in which Santa Claus or Santa Claus will leave us gifts. Or in the feast of the Christian Easter that has like extended practice to eat chocolate eggs the Sunday of resurrection of Christ.

The tango, the barbecue, the mate and the consumption of pasta on Sundays at noon turn out to be the most characteristic elements that express the tradition of the Argentines.

Also, the set of what is transmitted, as mentioned above, is called tradition.