LogFAQs > #979832201

The association is always the occasional colorful holiday and keeping traditions alive and that stuff, but beyond just being nice, it's useful.

Knowing a location, where it's safe, where the food and supplies are both good and cheap, the informal shibboleths that differentiate you from "outsiders" that allow for information, assistance, even favors from otherwise total strangers. Beyond locale, you might've inherited self defense practices, a widely applicable trade, a way to sustain yourself in unusual situations. Those things are held together by those seemingly arbitrary parades and obligatory events. I haven't been appreciative enough.