Abstract:
Societies can be compared to a pyramid composed of four walls representing traditions, security, services, and commerce. The peak represents leadership, with families as the foundation. The traditions wall, the most important wall, is composed of language, history of a society, attitudes toward religion, social organizations, and similar functions. Morals represent the mortar that holds the walls together. Traditions keep members of current and subsequent generations committed to survival of the society. Traditions can change; but they must change slowly enough for young and new members of societies to learn and assimilate the changes.