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Mon. Sep. 8, 2008

Art & Culture > Heritage > Traditions

Fixing Your Culture?

Not Mission: Impossible!

By  Art & Culture Team

 
Pencil and paper

Ramadan is not only about refraining from eating and drinking during the day, but it is a rare chance to elevate our spirituality and work on improving our morals.

Definitely, self-accountability  is a highly important aim sought in Ramadan. However, it is not the main discussion that we are triggering here.

Moving from the individual level to the communal, we would like to catch the golden opportunity Ramadan offers to us and talk about the bad traditions in our cultures. Take this: every year's pointless arguments over the moon sighting are setting a live case on how cultures become a start point of clash among Muslims!

Celebrating Ramadan as a month of feasting, labeling people according to their cultures, overlooking the other because of a different background, over-praising the community's past victories, and exaggerating when showing the customs and traditions are examples of such bad cultural habits.

It is your turn now! Get your pencil and paper, and list what you see as the bad traditions in your culture. It would be great to mention your views on how they can be fixed.



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