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Traditions did not survive by staying the same; they survived because they kept changing.

Festival dances have slowly changed shape by taking in the popular music of each era. Local dishes became the flavors we know today by welcoming vegetables and seasonings that came from across the sea. The people of the past did not see this as breaking tradition. They simply used it in ways that fit their own lives. Today, though, many people think of tradition as something with one correct form that must be guarded so nothing strays from it. When young people bring in new ways of doing things, they are told it is not the real thing. The form may stay neat and clean, but the people who want to carry it on disappear, and in the end it can only be seen behind museum glass. The wish to protect it ends up taking its breath away. What has truly kept traditions alive is the freedom of each generation to decide again for itself which core must not change and which parts are free to change. The systems we use to protect culture can also grow beyond recording things and freezing them in place, toward supporting the people who use them, play with them, and remake them today. A tradition passes to the next generation not when it is a treasure no one may touch, but when it becomes something people are allowed to touch.

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