OPM Disability Retirement: Interruption of Tradition
The common remark against the American culture is that it lacks any stabilizing force of tradition. That is a fair criticism, given that it has emerged from a recognized “Old World” and designated as the “New World”; and, indeed, it is where cultures and traditions were left behind, in search of a fresh beginning and open opportunities to remake one’s self, the future, etc., and thus leaving behind the past and old ways of living and thinking. That is the macro-cultural perspective; but within the microcosm of one’s insular universe, the privacy of small pockets of traditions form. Individuals and families perform acts, engage in daily living and embrace repetitive forms of normative establishments,