Elsa researches the definition of customs

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Elsa now has a better understanding between culture and traditions. But what about customs? Shouldn’t that tie in somehow? She continues her googling until she finds a definition of customs.

‘A custom is a broadly accepted, traditional way of performing or doing something specific to a particular society, place, or time. Each nation, religion, community have their exclusive customs. A specific gesture, behavior, experience, or act turns into a custom when it continuously practiced. When this is followed for several ages and passed down to fresher generations, it becomes a custom. 

Custom contributes a reason of ease and belonging. It transmits relatives together and enables persons to re-join with friends. Customs are also impractical sometimes, but they don’t change due to the worth of their connection to history. Customs naturally stay similar over several generations. 

Over the period, customs develop the law of ordinary life. They make and keep coordination in people. For instance, later handshaking converts a standard, an individual who failures to proposal his hand upon gathering another may observe down upon and apparent negatively. Reflect what might occur if an entire section of a population unexpectedly decided to discontinue shaking hands, supposing that handshaking was a very important custom in that civilization. Dislike might grow among the hand-shakers and the non-shakers, dispersal into other areas. Hand-shakers might assume that, if the non-shakers won’t shake hands, perhaps it’s because they’re clean or dirty. Or maybe the non-shakers feel that they’re bigger and don’t want to smear themselves by touching the hands of a lower person.

Some shocking customs from the World are mortar with lips in Nicaragua, canoodling in France, tipping in the U.S., hanging out in cemeteries in Denmark, slurping in Japan, kneeling or lying prostrate as greeting in Nigeria, using the left hand for things, etc.

Today’s Culture is tomorrow’s Custom. When a Culture transferred from generation to generation, it becomes the form of Custom. Culture’s scope is broader than the Custom. The main object of understanding here is Culture is something which a society practice, the Custom is something which a society carry on.’ (Source) 

Although Elsa thinks that she understands the difference between culture, traditions and customs it seems to be too much to take in at one time. She decides to stop searching for the day and heads on over to the community to see if anyone needs help. A short while later, Elsa gets a text message from Yeti saying that they will be in the Candy Kingdom early in the morning and he will let her know when they arrive. 

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