What are the positive and negative aspects of tradition?????? Please answer properly. I need it quick. With over 300 words. not from googlr please.
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Years ago I read the sentence, “How much the people of science know about the things they don’t understand.”1 It stretches our imagination to describe the interactions of genetics, epigenetics, and nurture that produce a unique human, but just as daunting is understanding the cultural and religious traditions that this unique human navigates. Tradition is the DNA of our beliefs, but then each person modifies that complex for his or her own unique environment. In essence, both the individual and his or her environment are so unique that risks exist in our generalizations. For example, within a single religious denomination is a spectrum of beliefs, and we repeatedly see individuals discard those beliefs in a moment when presented with opportunities involving money, sex, politics, or power. On the public health side, we also see great variations in what practitioners regard as “best practices.” Beware the attempt to label. Nonetheless, we are forced into the role of generalizations as we attempt to make adequate decisions with inadequate information.
C. P. Snow famously said that the gap between science and the humanities could not be bridged,2 but public health does that daily. When AIDS was recognized in the early 1980s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention needed social scientists and therefore sought the advice of anthropologists, sociologists, theologians, ethicists, and others. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that we learn geology the day after an earthquake.3 Ebola and AIDS showed that we learn better public health techniques because of disasters. That is how science works.
Traditions help in creating a sense of responsibility towards others while bad traditions can have a very negative impact on societal as well as economic development.
Explanation:
- Traditions are practices and beliefs that people have had since ages.
- These beliefs come from their cultures and religious associations.
- While some believes are extremely helpful and development in nature, others can be extremely detrimental and devastating in nature.
- For example a tradition of praying animals, mountains, and other natural resources is very helpful for preserving these resources.
- On the other hand at that tradition such as dowry, child marriage, etc can be negative for the society and affect its development.