Sharing Tradition Exercise : Summary and Question Answers

Sharing Tradition  Understanding the text Answer the following questions. a. According to LaPena, what is the importance of the oral tradition? To what extent do you agree with his opinions and why? Frank Lapena, the writer of this essay give more importance in the oral tradition. According to him, the tradition followed by our elders must be passed from generation to generation orally. It helps to maintain our cultural resource. Yes, I agree with his opinion because oral tradition helps the young generation to know about the lifestyle. Social, cultural environment of our elders in the past moreover, they can know about their family history. Our culture is our identity simply oral tradition helps people to preserve their identity. b. Who preserve and pass on the oral tradition? Oral tradition is a form of human communication in which knowledge, culture, traditions, ideas etc. are transmitted orally from one generation to another generation. Its duty of every to preserve and promote to pass o…