Where older generations favoured traditionalism, younger generations consistently push back the frontiers of social norms.

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Il Palio is one of very few surviving medieval spectacles of its type in Italy, enduring thanks to the sheer tenacity of Sienese traditionalism.

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Martijn Laman isn't one for that kind of traditionalism.

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"This is not dark, old-fashioned traditionalism, " Lin says.

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The author is indignant not just over her sister's ultra-traditionalism, but over the fact that British society in what appears to be a spirit of muddled multiculturalism seems to tolerate or even encourage such backward-looking ways of living and dressing.

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