La Vida

The Oxford School

Global Perspectives

Professor Danny Delgado

Counselor: Miss Myriam de Puy

Due Date: October 4, 2012

Homeroom Class: Science 9 a1

Introduction
A tradition is aritual, belief or object passed down within a society, still maintained in the present, With origins in the past. Traditions can persist and evolve for thousands of years. While it is commonly assumedthat traditions have ancient history, many traditions have been invented on purpose, whether that be political or cultural, over short periods of time. Certain scholarly fields, such as anthropology andbiology, have adapted the term "tradition," defining it more precisely than its conventional use in order to facilitate scholarly discourse.

Tradition, Culture and Identity
Global/InternationalPerspectives:
1. Why do people value tradition? Valeria
2. Why do people divide into nations?
* During large periods in history, groups of people have been dividing into continents, andthen into nations, according to their common benefits and choosing a leader to follow and for representing them, each nation has its own flag and leader such as a president or first minister.
3.Why do some people move from one country to another?
* People move from one country to another because of economical and political reasons.
* Wars
* Natural Disasters
* ReligiousIntolerance
* Poverty
* Famine
4. How does this affect their lives?
* Because they are not use to follow their traditions because they have being living in another country with manydifferent rules and traditions.
5. If we have ‘European citizens’, should we aim eventually for all people to be ‘World citizens’?
* Everyone are World Citizens because we live in the sameplanet, Only one created us, we may come from different parts of the world but we still can share with other people different choices and traditions as a family.

Local/National Perspectives:
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