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How cultural knowledge degrades in diaspora

My son asked me to teach him our folk dances for his school project and I realized I can only remember fragments, like pieces of a broken song.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Living memory proves unreliable over time, creating anxiety about becoming an inadequate keeper of disappearing traditions.

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Worth thinking about

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