Post #2: Living Folklore by Martha Sims

I agree with the author when she states that the average person believes that folklore is just another term for something untrue or not real, or just a  story or an old-fashioned belief. She also states that people believe that the only kind of people that had connections with folklore where those of less sophisticated class or simpler groups. In reality, folklore is the learning of different knowledge about how the world, our own communities, families,culture, etc express their creatively through art which include music, words, arts etc.  There is not group that doesn't practice some kind of folklore in their everyday life since folklore played and played an important role in every human that once and currently exist in this world. I have seen how many different cultures in this world use folklore in order to let the other different cultures know what their society is all about and what they can offer to these other societies, The customs of Japanese culture, or their unique food preparing techniques and their music with certain dance moves are all part of their folklore fashion, since they are informing their own knowledge to other cultures that wish to learn their traditions, Tradition is basically the act of passing down through generations certain customs or beliefs that are important to that certain group. As Martha Sims explained, tradition is a branch of folklore in a way that it uses materials, customs, verbal expressions to express their practices, but this must be a continuous practice, which then proof that it is vital to this certain group or culture, I enjoy learning about different traditions other cultures do, since you can learn and see how they view the world.