The symbolic bonfires in Northern Ireland are on the one hand an expression of community, tradition, and on the other hand are hostile to other traditions.
He was, in effect, the final expression of the tradition embodied by Tchaikovsky a melodist of Romantic dimensions still writing in an era of explosive change and experimentation.
While the religious aspects of Turkish and Iranian "houses of strength" (where weightlifting and gymnastics were practiced) became much less salient in the course of the 20th century, the elders in charge of Japanese sumo added a number of Shintō elements to the rituals of their sport to underscore their claim that it is a unique expression of Japanese tradition.
"It's up to us to seek a peaceful response and we trust that, along the line, people will recognise the importance of having respect and tolerance for the cultural expression of our tradition and that violence will no longer be allowed to be the determining factor when decisions are bring taken".
Mythology proper has only a very small place in official Islam and is mostly an expression of popular traditions through which pre-Islamic influences seeped into Islam.
Throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canada sought to forcibly assimilate aboriginal youngsters by removing them from their homes and placing them in federally funded boarding schools that prohibited the expression of native traditions or languages.
It would more accurately be seen as a new and fuller expression of democratic traditions in the west, extended from the political to the economic sphere, as well as a response to the immediate crisis of short-termism and lack of sustainability.
An expression of those traditions is a daylong horserace and bacchanal that locals call the Race of Souls or the Game of Roosters, which has been held every year on November 1, during the Day of the Dead festivities, ever since anyone can remember.
In a Confucianism-based society, the homogeneity of society is an important aspect of the tradition".Cultural China" focuses on different expressions of this tradition caused by differences in local social structures.
Whether composed orally or written down, the stories are meant to be recited, and they employ many of the formulaic expressions of oral tradition.
