Tradition

Have a look at this vid clip below. It's quite funny. Although it shows Jewish peasants in Russia, in some ways it reminds me of the Afrikaans communities I knew. Small, close knit, united in language, faith and tradition. All the characters that made up the community, the dominee, the doctor, the butcher, the grocer,the Co-op and of course, the kerk being the moral guidence system and watchdog. These pics of the church...that is the NG Moeder Kerk op George. I lived right next door to that church once apon a time.

Sometimes I think it is also traditions that is the stuff that glues people together. Not just love. Maybe now days as people become more wise and modern, they shed those old funny traditions which are considered old fashioned, and so in the end everyone goes his way, and does their thing, and so often even family ties is no longer enough to keep us together. My brother in law said to me last week, he thinks people are only involved in their immediate family, and are not even bothered with the extended family anymore...everyone is spread thin all over the country and across the globe. So if there is no bond among family, where will there ever be a bond among communities, look at the pathetic turn out to national celebrations, Day of the Vow and all that...it is as if now there is no more faith, no more heimat, there is no more 'tradition'..