Memory

Memory is important not only as a source of individual expression, but as a source of cultural expression as well. Cultural memory allows us to discern, express, and value differences based on gender, race, and social background.

Janine Rider

This seems to be a forgotten idea, that it is more than just what one can remember for one’s personal memory. It is for a person to remember their culture and share their culture so that it does not get lost. The idea that all of the cultures that we have present in today’s life makes it easy to lost or mesh together the memories of our culture and let them get lost. How can we keep these cultural traditions alive other than by remembering and by practicing? With the accessibility of the internet, it can be very easy to mix up some traditions from different areas because the internet does not track that of specific cultures for example that of Holiday tradition that you grew up doing with your town in a foreign country . It may not exist in today’s online memory, known as the internet.

For example, I spent many of my holidays with my family in Costa Rica, seeing as how I partially grew up there, I experienced many different traditions that are lost already. Due to the introduction of the internet and the fact that many people see it as dangerous traditions to keep living. These cultural traditions have slowly begun to become lost in certain parts of the country, and there is no accessibility to them on the internet, they are only passed down through experience and the stories that we are told by our grandparents and parents.

Yes, I know that not everything can be kept, but my question is how do we keep alive these cultural traditions that can only live in our memory, how can we use the internet to keep them alive? How can story telling keep all these traditions alive and not lose its meaning?