New traditions - World café discussion

During our meeting in Lentvaris one of the topics we were dicussing were traditions in our countries and their changes. We used the world café method for this purpose - and here are some of our results:

1.       There are new traditions from other countries we adopt. Find out reasons fort hat.

·         We want become modern but we don’t want to share our traditions to other countires

·         Because of history

·         We are tired oft he old traditions and we want to try the foreign ones

·         To lose in people

·         Because we are more interested in foreign traditions than in ours (we don’t know all of our traditons and we don’t want to learn them because we think that they are not important)

·         #New technologies help us to discover an traditions around the world. For instance with just a click we can know traditions from the USA, Asia, Africa…

·         One oft he things that makes people adapt new traditions is consumarism

·         Because we changed the religions

·         Because we have interst on what the other countries are doing.

·         #The fact that two countires or more communicate takes them to adopt other habits and traditions.

·         #Working in another country or migarate take people to share their traditions and adopt new ones.

2.       Name traditions of your country you would not mind becoming lost + why would you agree to lose them?

·         Folk songs (some of them) – they are boring for a younger audience

·         Bull fighting – too much gore, dangerus E

·         Pao por Deus – 1st halloween has become more popoular 2nd. Young people aren’t as religious as before.

·         PT Touradas (bullfighting) – inflicts unesscessary pain on the bull picke

·         PT Horse competition on iice – it’s very dangerous for horses and people

·         The Octoberfest – the people drinking to much alcohol and maybe it could happened bad things

·         Pasninkas – most people don’t know the meaning o fit and they don#t like it.

·         25th of April – independence of Portugal

3.       Imagine that you are asked to work fort he protection of your country’s heritage for half a year like the obligatory military service in some countries. Which kind of work would you prefer?

·         Social media work

·         Informing other countries about how important our heritage is

·         Informing people from other countries

·         Talk with kids about our heritage#

·         Become a politician so you can cahnge something more successful

·         Make a group of people who always tries to protect our heritage. Also invite the people

·         Make events to remind us of our heritage (competitions, concerts, etc.)

·         Clean the statues

·         Teach about our heritage in schools

·         Free tours to our  heritage sites

·         Make projects like Erasmus +

·         Attract tourists tot he heritage site

·         Promoting heritage sites on tickets of other heritage sites

·         Learning how to kee p the traditions and spreading them

·         Inviting famous people to show us or remind us about our heritage thus promoting it

4.       Find similarities and differences in your country’s traditions.

·         Germany, Spain and Portugal have an easter rabbit – except Lithuania (Easter Grandma)

·         All countries have St. Johns day except Germany (St. Martins)

·         Paint eggs on Eater (Germany and Lithuania)

·         Everybody except Lithuanina celebrates Halloween

·         We celebrate Easter at the same time

·         We share: Christamas, New Year, All Saints day, Valentine’s day, Labour day, Shrovetide Tuesday, Three Kings day, Toothe underneath pillow

5.       How do you annd can you take part in the preservation of traditions that you want to pass over to future generations?

·         Make wikipedia texts

·         Build a museum

·         Make a fire in the people’s heart that they will want to use traditions

·         Just do the traditions (Start again)

·         Try to teach other people and countires about our traditions

·         Speak with older people and make events. Ask them how they want to do that.

·         Make old traditions in a modern way to common old and young people together

·         Making advertising

·         Make videos for generation that grows

·         Tell children

·         Make events about traditions

·         We can speak with older poeple and make a book of traditions that were in the past

·         Take action in preserving traditions

·         Write a book about tradtiions

·         Tell about it for your children

·         Make a song

·         Adapt traditions tot he new agges.

·         Celebrate the traditions every year and this way we won’t lose them

·         Create a game of traditions

·         Celebrate the traditions every year and this way we won’t lose them.