How Long to Make a Tradition

[Bugbear]

I think a lot of people are confusing "tradition" with fashion or fad or just conventions (or any ol' thing) that has been around longer than they have.

You going to name names?

I will agree, in a way, that the term "traditional" has been very much abused by those who use it as a buz word either for or against.

I'm sticking by my statement that a tradition is made stronger if it's reasons or perpose for being are explained as the tradition is passed on. In other words, telling someone they should do something because it is "traditional," and not being able to explain why it is traditional, the history behind the tradition, or even the myths that lead to the tradition, weakens the tradition and leads to "Buz-Word-ism."