What W(e) DID about traditions

The word tradition itself derives from the Latin “tradere” or “traderer” which means to pass down something, to transmit, hand over, or to give for savekeeping. Tradition passes down religious beliefs, principles, behavior, action patterns or shortly said everything without instinct (how to use tools, language). It is transmitted within a group or society, and in different generations. This together creates the culture of a group, as they pass down their beliefs through education,examples or immitation. Commonly it is assumed that they origin in the past, but many traditions have been invented just to highlight the importance of a special institution. Traditions were passed down orally, but also they used poetic devices like rhymes and alliteration.

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On Monday 13th, January we had a very pleasant exchange of several traditions from our homecountries. Noemi, Reka and Cosmina shared some of their customs and showed us some videos of dances from Hungaria and Rumania. Apart from that I made an presentation of Austrian traditions, to make the meeting more intercultural. Many things what we saw, where in common with issues in Hungaria, just as food and also a lot of vocabularies. I think the “Schuhplatter” was getting the most attention, why this happened you can check through watching the link:

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Some people already knew the special way of singing from the Alps, which is called “Jodeln”. We saw one of the first musicians from Austria who made this old tradition again popular, Hubert von Goisern. Also we heard the Kukux Jodel from “Oasches die Dritten”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rPAnxsSk40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfHIRtAUuMM

W(e) DID“Dirndl” und “Lederhose” are the traditional clothes which you can see on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=FnA2Jst6rro&list=PLDC96BB59BD20EE4B

On the picture you can see me as a child wearing a tradtitional dress. The picture down on the right side shows the famous Austrian “Sachertorte”.  Of course it is not garuandeed that after all the typical Austrian food that we saw and I explained, we would fit in the clothes anymore, as we went with the feeling of starvation to get a typical Greek Pita. The meeting ended nicely with a local “Krasi” (wine) from Lefkada, or for the more tough people with a Tsipouro.

 

Elisabeth Weissitsch.

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