# proud tradition (standing)

*Ordinarily means:* a long-standing practice that a group is proud of

A tradition a collective self reads as setting it apart from others, so a change to the pattern reads as the self made smaller.

- Computed level: L20 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [tradition](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-tradition.kept), [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [pride](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pride.state), [pattern](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pattern.regularity), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities), [change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-change.process), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [small](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-small.size), [self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self.personal), [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive)

**Through:** 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

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-proud-tradition.standing*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-proud-tradition.standing.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*