Unadapted significance of cultural tradition

Communities need to deliberately strengthen their unique identities in order to promote creative self-reliance. The strong individualism that has grown up over the years among the people of many developing communities often prevents them from working and celebrating together, despite many clubs and groups. Until new patterns emerge in some areas and a deeper appreciation of existing heritage in others, providing the set patterns for farming, roles of women, and families, which help create the community's self-image, the motivation needed for development will not be generated.

1. At the same time as it is increasingly necessary for a society's heritage to provide cultural identity and cohesion during times of change, many small communities find themselves in a world very foreign to their traditions. The traditional rites of passage for youth are slowly disappearing; and the community's past is not re-enacted to provide young people with models to follow, and on which to base their own image of who they are and why they were born into their particular community. Children know few, if any, of the basic traditions and legends of their culture. Without recovering past heritage and relating it to the present day, the possibility of maintaining a community's unique culture is severely limited.

1. Unadapted community structures
2. Obsolete basis of cultural identity
3. Historical rootlessness
4. Cultural stagnation

1. Reduced agricultural reliance
2. Oppressive prevalent images
3. Insufficient cultural heroes
4. Infrequent honour singing
5. Inadequate national language proficiency
6. Embarrassing cultural traditions

1. Unvalued indigenous resources
2. Unused cultural resources
3. Unexplored energy alternatives
4. Social disaffection of the young
5. Shrinking community life
6. Sectarianism
7. Rivalry and disunity within developing regions
8. Reinforced parochialism of internal values and images
9. Modern disruption of traditional symbol systems
10. Loss of traditional forms of social security
11. Loss of faith in religion
12. Loss of cultural heritage
13. Incongruous religious images
14. Inappropriate application of traditional values
15. Fragmented community image
16. Ethnic disintegration
17. Detrimental story of community future
18. Decline in rural customs and traditions
19. Cultural suicide
20. Contempt for traditional atttitudes to nature
21. Conflicting land rights

1. Undetermined procedures for adapting tradition-bound cultures
2. Tradition-bound social structures in rural areas
3. Restrictive social practices
4. Rapidly changing cultures
5. Obsolescence of rituals and customs
6. Inadequate appreciation of culture
7. Erosion of collective memory in traditional cultures

1. Cultural corruption

1. Dismissal of past cultural achievements
2. Demeaning farmer image
3. Cultural isolation

1. Providing alternative to traditional cultural life
2. Preserving significance of cultural tradition
3. Articulating community stories
4. Adapting significance of cultural tradition

1. Tradition-bound
2. Tradition
3. Significance
4. Insignificance
5. Inarticulate
6. Inadaptability
7. Creativity
8. Community
9. Anticommunity