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Folklore and Oral Tradition

Folklore refers to the cultural expression of a people, including stories, music, dances, legends, and oral history. Tradition refers to the values, beliefs, and customs that one generation inherits from previous ones and transmits to the following ones. While folklore includes the elements of a people's culture, tradition comprises those elements that shape a people's identity through inheritance across generations.

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Folklore and Oral Tradition

Folklore refers to the cultural expression of a people, including stories, music, dances, legends, and oral history. Tradition refers to the values, beliefs, and customs that one generation inherits from previous ones and transmits to the following ones. While folklore includes the elements of a people's culture, tradition comprises those elements that shape a people's identity through inheritance across generations.

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What is the difference between folklore and tradition?

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Best response: Folklore, folk lore or folklor (from the English folk, 'people' and lore,
"collection" or "knowledge" is the expression of the culture of a people: stories,
music, dances, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, superstitions
customs, craftsmanship and others, common to a specific population, including the
traditions of said culture, subculture or social group. This name is also given to the
study of these subjects.

Tradition comes from the Latin traditio, which in turn comes from tradere, "to deliver". It is tradition
everything that a generation inherits from the previous ones and, considering it valuable,
bring to the following.

Values, beliefs, customs, and forms of expression are considered traditional.


artistic characteristics of a community, especially those that are transmitted
orally. The traditional thus largely coincides with culture and folklore or
popular wisdom

The conservative view of tradition sees it as something to maintain and obey.


uncritically. However, the vitality of a tradition depends on its capacity
to renew itself, changing in form and substance (sometimes profoundly) to continue
being useful.

Specifically, folklore is the conjunction of elements that make up the culture of a


people; and the tradition are those elements that a people inherits and generate their
identity.

Simple variables can be said to be synonymous.


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