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How old does something have to be in order to be "tradition"? The idea that before some certain point a culture was "frozen" is usually ahistorical. Certainly
by jrochkind1 5y ago
How old does something have to be in order to be "tradition"?
The idea that before some certain point a culture was "frozen" is usually ahistorical. Certainly true for cultures of the Italian penninsula, on the Mediteranean providing easy access to wide swaths of land and peoples, part of a former empire that spanned continents.
- dsr_ 5y agoHow old does something have to be in order to be "tradition"? Easy: as soon as the people who adopted it into the current form are dead and the adoption forgotten. My grandmother's cherry island cake was almost certainly copied off the back of a package sometime in the 1920s or 30s; maybe it's an adaptation of a German or Hungarian recipe. Now it's a tradition in my family.