{
  "id": "proud-tradition.standing",
  "term": "proud tradition",
  "sense": "standing",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 20,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A tradition a collective self reads as setting it apart from others, so a change to the pattern reads as the self made smaller.",
  "folk_gloss": "a long-standing practice that a group is proud of",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "tradition.kept",
      "collective-self.shared",
      "pride.state",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "read.information",
      "set.fix",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "change.process",
      "make.verb",
      "small.size",
      "self.personal",
      "self-model.reflexive"
    ],
    "interaction": "Tradition supplies a kept pattern; pride reads the pattern as setting the group apart from others. Joined, the pattern's value is read from what it says about the self, so a proposal to drop it is heard as a proposal to shrink the self.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "practice defended as standing",
      "age read as rank",
      "change priced in pride rather than in results"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "tradition.kept",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a tradition whose keeping is also a report of pride"
    },
    {
      "id": "this-is-who-we-are.identity-claim",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "that names the self's kind; this names a practice that raises the self above others"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "a long and proud tradition",
    "a proud tradition",
    "long and proud tradition",
    "proud tradition",
    "proud traditions"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-proud-tradition.standing"
}