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Undetermined procedures for adapting tradition-bound cultures

Visualization of narrower problems

Name(s):

Unclarified procedures for transposing ancient traditions

Nature

Because tribal people did not participate in the shaping of the technological society, they are being forced back to their ancient culture whose traditional forms are not applicable in present-day conditions. Their only source of uniqueness is the remembrance of the past. Transposing their deep wisdom, social forms and symbol system into meaningful and operable forms is closely connected with the challenge of self-sufficiency in the economic area.

Broader

Inadequate social innovation

Narrower

Cultural isolation

Inadequate sense of time

Conflicting symbol systems

Absence of rites of passage

Symbols unrelated to human experience

Lack of economic adaptation of indigenous systems

Aggravates

Blood vengeance

Endangered cultures ^{[in 1 loop]}

Lack of assimilation ^{[in 7 loops]}

Loss of cultural heritage ^{[in 1 loop]}

Decision-making tradition lost

Restricted farming alternatives

Indecisive community programmes

Preservation of obsolete systems ^{[in 8 loops]}

Inflexible social care structures ^{[in 2 loops]}

Elimination of traditional skills ^{[in 4 loops]}

Inadequate education of indigenous peoples

Continuing expectation of community decline

Unadapted significance of cultural tradition ^{[in 31 loops]}

Tradition-bound social structures in rural areas ^{[in 13 loops]}

Dysfunctional adaptation to technological advance

Increasing unsustainability of global development ^{[in 1 loop]}

Unstructured local government in small communities ^{[in 10 loops]}

Aggravated by

Rapidly changing cultures

Glorification of primitive cultures

Delays in implementation of social change

Limited availability of learning opportunities

Static social relations inhibiting vision of the future

Strategy(ies)

Upholding traditions

Providing alternative to traditional cultural life

Determining procedures for adapting tradition-bound cultures

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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