EU Mom blog explains the traditions surrounding the food.

In some of areas of Madagascar, circumcision is also a tradition.

It becomes even more difficult when the complex historical baggage calls for sensitivity and tolerance while the protagonists are determined to see every concession as surrender.

Not even Mao Zedong, with the fury unleashed during China s Cultural Revolution, could make the Four Olds (old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas) vanish.

I was wondering why is the list for men missing when we are blessed to have such long list of illogical customs for women.

The basic reasons for the dropout of pupils of the ethnic Albanian and Roma communities are to be found in the tradition, lifestyle, religion, habits, economic migration abroad, poverty, the change of which require longer period.

Afghanistan s Customary Anguish

This perpetual handing on of the Tradition is called a living Tradition it is the transmission of the teachings of the Apostles from one generation to the next.

China s New Normal and America s Old Habits

having a professional knowledge and familiarity with local language, laws and customs

The specific characteristics, traditions and customs vary from one region to another.

Such symbiosis requires a healthy disregard for convention.

The main enemy lies in deep seated mentalities, habits, and routines.

However, the impact of traditional values and customs continued to be felt.

Sri Lanka's tragedy reminds us how many things can go wrong when old Asian polities seek to establish modern nation states. It becomes even more difficult when the complex historical baggage calls for sensitivity and tolerance while the protagonists are determined to see every concession as surrender.

But traditions can also be created.

Christian tradition is a collection of traditions of practices or beliefs associated with Christianity or groups with Christianity.

Kavita Ramdas Radical women, embracing tradition

We find ourselves in the paralyzing grip of self destructive habits we can't break.

These leaders already know the tribal chiefs, spiritual leaders, and tribal customs and codes.

Mustafa Akyol Faith versus tradition in Islam

Indeed, the Gaullist tradition ends with him.

At the group level, acculturation often results in changes to culture, customs, and social institutions.

Historical traditions also play a role.

This is in stark contrast to the Italian political tradition.

Imperial traditions never fade away completely.

This Golden Rule, however, also appears in the Indian tradition.

Such is the case with the Anglo American tradition or the continental tradition of international law, or Soviet doctrines or Third World Approaches to international law.

Our past has built up layer upon layer of instincts, propensities, habits of thought, patterns of interaction, and material resources.

Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress.

But the attraction depends on seeing what is at the core of the family tradition.

National traditions are the second important factor in Olympic success.

Politicized Islam in Afghanistan represents a break from Afghan traditions.

Hamill claimed to have heard this story in oral tradition.

Environmental journalism pulls from the tradition and scope of nature writing.

But in assuming this responsibility and going about it as you have, you have become a bridge between an older and traditional society and the one that you are now creating at the paper.

That landmark resolution is a challenge to us all, for it requires a fundamental change in procedure, delivery, attitudes and habits.

I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, and that is tragedy.

Massive public demonstrations were held in Istanbul to support Turkey s Kemalist secular tradition.

Muslims imported a rich intellectual tradition from the Middle East and North Africa.

Much of the identity, traditions and architecture of Mexico were created during the colonial period.

Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions are the only denominations that benefit from confessional education in the school system.

There are no easy ways out of underdevelopment without challenging traditional lifestyles, customs, and social relations.

Mao also ordered the country to destroy the Four Olds old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.

Middle Eastern countries should protect and consolidate women s rights as a way to reinforce democratic ideas and habits.