Your culture is a bigger chunk of who you are and the pathway you see the nation. When you live in a place where your culture is mainstream culture, you likely don’t have to put much effort into preserving it—it’s all around you! But what occurs if you move to another nation or when younger generations lose contact with old generations? If you don’t actively preserve the culture, you risk losing the traditions, art, language and food that give life meaning. Read on to explore what you do to keep the culture alive.
Participating in Cultural Traditions
Sharing the culture’s technology and art with others. Each culture has its own visual art, religious beliefs, clothing, and music other characteristics that make it special. Members of the cultural community would be overjoyed to talk and teach about their projects, hobbies, jobs, and what they do for fun.
Attended or organized traditional cultural events. Your tribe, country, immigrant ethnic group and religious denomination almost certainly celebrates major holidays or cultural festivals. Travelling to the events to get a good outlook on the culture. If you can’t discover any good events in the area, get some humans together and organize your own.
Cooking family recipes handed up through generations. It’s never too late to whip up certain recipes from the grandmother’s cookbook! Traditional dishes played a bigger role in culture, with tastes and smells having good connections to memories. As you knead dough or try to guess the righteous amounts of spices, you’re certain to think back to memories from the holidays or your childhood. Just reading an older recipe supports you recognizing how much kitchen tools and ingredients have changed over the years.
Spend time with other members of the cultural community. Gather as a group not just for big events and holidays, but for usual meals and just a conversation. Utilize these times to grasp and keep alive the aspects of culture that are tough to grasp through museums and books like etiquette, humor and body language.
Grasp about the culture’s religious traditions. Regardless of whether you share your grandparents’ and parents’ religious faiths, studying them does support you to better understand the culture. Religion connects to personal behaviour, language, and history. Become familiar with the religious traditions and beliefs helping you understand other aspects of the culture that are interlaced.
Speak up your ancestral language. If you don’t understand the culture’s original language, ask an elder in the culture to teach it to you. When you grasp the language, you profit insight into the culture’s values and the pathway humans in the culture perceive the globe. Plus, if the language is rare in your zone, you won’t have to fret about anyone eavesdropping on the conversations!
Aim on a particular aspect of the culture. Record anything you’ve explored through research experience, no matter how tiny it seems. You can’t pen up everything there is to understand about a culture—that’s far too intimidating! Instead, select a tiny slice of the culture to report on.
Select out a medium to the utilization for cultural record. Use a traditional medium, calligraphy, and oral storytelling to make the recording a personal cultural experience as well. Or utilize a digital format like a DVD and website, to share your cultural story with humans all over the globe.
Conducting interviews with relatives or other members of the culture. If you told a specific human history, interviewing them and asking them questions to draw out their tales. Feel free to let the human wander to other stories and topics as they talk to you—you may grasp something you’d never thought to ask about.
Trace the family tree to explore newest cultural perspectives. With the support of family members, you go back really far into the family’s history and discover whole branches of cousins you’ve never met. With every new branch, you’ll unlock newest connections to the culture that you may not have thought about before.
Sharing the record with young humans to keep traditions alive. Minority cultures often struggled to pass on cultural traditions. When you share your tapes and records with young humans, you support educating them on the richness of the cultural background. In the face of social challenges, organizing cultural discussions to support humans understand the culture’s values and keep it alive.
Follow the cultural content on social media. Chances are, there are numerous various social media accounts that celebrate the culture. Following those accounts and shared posts permit you to express the love for the culture and pass it along to others.
Give presentations on your culture at libraries and schools. Teachers often look out for manners to teach their students about various cultures—just calling certain schools and asking! Talking to young people is a good way to share the culture with others and preserve it for future generations.
![Kattenstoet (illuminating the "Cat Festival") is an exhibition in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to cats. It has been held every second Sunday in May since 1955. Most recently, the 45th program took place on May 13, 2018. The exhibition is reminiscent of the Ypres Middle Ages, where cats were thrown from the buffalo tower of the Fabric Hall to the town square below. How it all started- There are various myths about how cats were thrown. It is also possible that cats were involved in witchcraft, and the throwing of cats symbolized the killing of evil spirits. The last recorded event of its kind was in 1817. Another story suggests that cats were brought to the Cloth Hall (Lakenhallen) to control pests. Prior to the modern methods of heating and storage, when cold, wool was stored on the upper floors of the Fabric Hall. Early in the spring heat, after the wool had been sold, the cats were thrown out of the iron tower. Modern festival Figuratively reviving the practice at parade ceremonies, the jester throws baby toy cats from Cloth Hall belfry to the crowd, waiting with simple hands to catch one. The throwing of cats from the bench is followed by the burning of a fake witch. Participants in ceremonies often dress like cats, witches, mice, or city dwellers from years past, and the festival also features brass bands and horsemen. About 2,000 people took part in the 2012 show. [5] The festival is a popular tourism event in Belgium and has helped strengthen the local tourism economy near Ypres. 8,000 people visited the event in 2000. For the past 60 years, the city of Ypres in Belgium has had a famous "Cat Parade" that attracts visitors from all over the country. Kattenstoet, or "Cat Festival", is held once every three years and mainly includes parades featuring images of big cats, brass bands, marchers, and horsemen. Fun lovers dress like cats, witches, or mice and march through the city to enjoy the crowds. Although everything is gay and fun now, the origins of Kattenstoet are very dark. Back in the Middle Ages, people were not kind to animals and cats in particular. Many Western European cities at the time engaged in cat-eating rituals in which people gathered cats in a net or rope and hoisted them high into the air over a huge fire. Cats were thought to carry evil spirits along with the Devil himself. So while the poor animals cry out in pain, the crowd roars with laughter. After the animals were burned, the mob gathered charcoal and fire ashes to bring them home. In the city of Ypres, cats are used as victims in many folkloristic games. In those days, Ypres, like many cities in the Flanders region of Belgium, had a reputation for its textile industry. Wool was imported into England, and it was woven into fine clothes by highly skilled craftsmen. Both wool and finished products were stored in the Fabric Hall, one of the largest commercial buildings of the time. But the fabric attracted rats, chewing on the fabric and producing unhealthy values. To control the number of rats, textile traders in Ypres brought in their natural predator, the cat. But cats also breed and soon there were more cats than the city could afford. Thus began the killing of cats. This was a time when cats were considered a symbol of evil, and there was nothing more pleasing to the people of the town than throwing an animal into the metal tower of a local church. When business was not going well, people were sure that there were always a few extra cats thrown out of the window. In time, the killings became a ritual, occurring on 'Cat Wednesday', in the second week of Lent. The pagan practice continued until 1817 when the last massacre took place. The last cat reportedly survived the fall and fled shortly before being caught again. From then until World War I, Cats' Day was celebrated with the sound of church bells ringing. In 1938, a group of young boys from the altar organized a kind of cat show. Each had a toy cat. When they got to church they started having a party and then one of the boys climbed on the bell and threw the cat toys on the floor. The 'Cat Festival' lasted mainly a local festival until the 1950's when folkloristic parades became a new phenomenon throughout West Flanders. On the second Sunday of Lent in 1955, the first beautiful exhibition was organized with 1,500 others, all dressed in fine clothes. Since then, every three years the city has been celebrating the Cat Festival.](https://www.sikhheros.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/kattenstoet-ypres-32-150x150.jpg "The Cat Throwing Festival - Kattenstoet")
