How Long to Make a Tradition

[Bugbear]

You know my post #61 was meant as a summary and I was intent on bowing out of this discussion...which gets more attenuated as time goes by (even I recognize that)...but I'm like the trout that I used to fish for--I'll rise to a fat drake every time.

Out of respect for you (and not wishing to have you misunderstand me) I feel compelled to point out that I have never asserted that "small or non-main stream groups can not have...traditions." Quite the contrary, as I mentioned my family traditions in one post and alluded to social groupings as small as families in another.

Just sayin'....

Exactly.

You did bring up MacMillan of Rathdown's definition which may imply or possibly say that non-main stream groups are incapable of forming traditions, and that is the thorn in my side for this thread.

We are not dissagreeing, so I will leave it be.

* Apologies if it sounded like I was saying you were saying those things, but like I said I don't have a problem with your definition. *