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When children reject ancestral practices you hold sacred

My teenage daughter refuses to participate in our annual Day of the Dead celebration and says it's morbid but this is how my family has always connected and I'm watching our traditions die with her generation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural continuity fractures when the next generation finds meaning elsewhere.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ancestor veneration across traditions?”

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