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When children reject ancestral practices parents want to preserve

My daughter shows no interest in the traditional crafts I desperately want to pass down and I feel like a cultural lineage is dying with me

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The forced nature of cultural transmission can create resistance that threatens the very continuity it seeks to ensure.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous creative traditions?”

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