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The item I am exploring is from El Salvadore called the Mal de Ojo (Evil Eye). The article is rich in religious history. The Mal de Ojo is in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity and even dates back to Ancient Ugarit. Therefore, it plays a considerable role in the significance of the culture. The artifact is also a worldwide belief known in North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia. It is a cultural tradition passed down from generation to generation with the stories
of the past right along with it. The stories keep the heritage alive and the culture growing. Stories, Artifacts, religion, beliefs, and language, among other things, create a culture and help to
signify one's identity. Symbols in culture can remind a person just by seeing one of their past and
bring back the cultural history as it was told to them by their parents. Culture and expression are intertwined. Culture molds us into who we become. Cultural language is one crucial thing that is always the same in society; why not change from the ethnic language? What makes a person believe in the myths or legends of their predecessors? Are they to accept the cultural myths and stories out of fear or respect for their peers and culture? Do these
items and tales build a bond between the people and communities within the culture? Is that part of making traditional items, symbols, religion, speech, conventional family events, and so on to build a closer nit family, culture, and community within their own? Your values are a set of standards to which you hold particular importance. "Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire
society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, art. norms of behavior, such as law and morality, and systems of belief" (LeMorte, 2016). Your heritage
