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When cultural knowledge dies with its keepers

My grandmother kept trying to teach me her recipes and I always said I'd learn them later, and now she's gone and I can't make anything that tastes like home.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The assumption that tradition will always be available for transmission can result in irreversible cultural loss within families.

Ideas that help explain it
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