Before World War II the villages were the main social and economic units, preserving customs and traditions similar to those of 19th-century Spain.
That said, Ta'if preserved the custom of choosing a Maronite president, Sunni Muslim prime minister and Shia speaker.
Hex sign, emblem painted on a barn, especially in Pennsylvania Dutch country, an agricultural region in southeastern Pennsylvania largely settled by German immigrants who have preserved ethnic custom and identification to a high degree (see Pennsylvania German).
Sinic culture seeped deeply into society, but it shaped the aristocracy and mandarinal families more than it did the peasantry, which preserved distinctive customs, beliefs, vocabulary, lifeways, and gender relations.
We preserve this custom of warning the opponent in our less lyrical way by stating the score just before we toss up the ball.
Given that our theology is so beautiful and that our forefathers died to safeguard the religion, do we forsake it in this wonderful land of India where we have religious freedom?" On the cavernous balconies of a sanitarium that is now used as a residence for poorer Parsis, the reasons offered for preserving the custom were simpler and the suspicions about why it is in trouble less scientific.
The Twelve Tables allegedly were written by 10 commissioners (decemvirs) at the insistence of the plebeians, who felt their legal rights were hampered by the fact that court judgments were rendered according to unwritten custom preserved only within a small group of learned patricians.
Borrowing from Gyekye [ 5], Nzegwu [ 6] notes the politics of customs (upon which 'indigenous' phenomena are based), contextualizing this politics while observing that "there is nothing static or stable about traditions and customs", rather, "the root of the problem lies in the way that present generations have chosen to preserve their customs or traditions" ([ 6]. p139).
They preserve many customs modeled on Jewish traditions, including the menorah, unleavened bread at Passover and wedding canopies, and they practice endogamous marriage.
"I see a community determined to preserve its customs, as opposed to other communities," said Neria Haroeh, 30, a lawyer who is the president of the Karaite community.
Charles Wukasch of Austin, who learned as a teenager that he was Wendish, wants to preserve the customs of his ancestors, but he says doing so is difficult.
