http://arefe.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/the-tight-hold-of-tradition/ A Weblog on Arts & Culture, Life & Society Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:16:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://arefe.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/the-tight-hold-of-tradition/#comment-477 Anonymous Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:45:37 +0000 http://arefe.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/the-tight-hold-of-tradition/#comment-477 I agree with the above person.We should respect tradition and find ways of improving it. I agree with the above person.We should respect tradition and find ways of improving it.

]]> http://arefe.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/the-tight-hold-of-tradition/#comment-423 Zelalem B. Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:53:33 +0000 http://arefe.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/the-tight-hold-of-tradition/#comment-423 I am not an apologist for FGM.But when we speak about tradition, there is a tendency to consider it as an obstacle which should be discarded.Those who reject traditional values take the western model as a precedent.Westernaization is mostly equated with modernization and accordingly customs and ways of life adhered bt traditional people should be abandoned in favor of some external culture and way of life. But, the road to modernazation is not paved by abandoning cherished customs and beliefs but by bolstering and enhancing them.Tradtion can't be an obstacle and shouldn't be removed from the scene, but should be seen as a basis for achieving modernization.In fact, tradition should be jealosly guarded.Looking back in search of roots and orgins is not a way backward but a way forward. Let us think of ways of upgrading our tradition. I am not an apologist for FGM.But when we speak about tradition, there is a tendency to consider it as an obstacle which should be discarded.Those who reject traditional values take the western model as a precedent.Westernaization is mostly equated with modernization and accordingly customs and ways of life adhered bt traditional people should be abandoned in favor of some external culture and way of life.
But, the road to modernazation is not paved by abandoning cherished customs and beliefs but by bolstering and enhancing them.Tradtion can’t be an obstacle and shouldn’t be removed from the scene, but should be seen as a basis for achieving modernization.In fact, tradition should be jealosly guarded.Looking back in search of roots and orgins is not a way backward but a way forward.
Let us think of ways of upgrading our tradition.

]]> http://arefe.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/the-tight-hold-of-tradition/#comment-420 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Ethiopian bloggers take on female genital mutilation Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:18:26 +0000 http://arefe.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/the-tight-hold-of-tradition/#comment-420 [...] wondered I Was Just Thinking in The tight hold of tradition. The “traditional” practice of Female Genital Mutilation (or ‘cutting’ for the squeamish or ‘circumcision’ for those in denial) is the most shocking thing I have come across since moving to Ethiopia [...] [...] wondered I Was Just Thinking in The tight hold of tradition. The “traditional” practice of Female Genital Mutilation (or ‘cutting’ for the squeamish or ‘circumcision’ for those in denial) is the most shocking thing I have come across since moving to Ethiopia [...]

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