I've noticed that "preservation of tradition" can mean very different things to people. For example, some people want to preserve whatever it is they remember from childhood or whatever the common practice is today in their communities, even when it can be demonstrated that the practice was recently imported from a non-S&P source, while others prefer in some cases to restore the things that many generations of our ancestors did but were forgotten or discarded. In many specific cases you -individually- really have to choose. So what do you prefer? Preserving/restoring the practice of...