{
  "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": [
    {
      "text": "When the Royal Navy ended its daily rum ration on 31 July 1970, \"Black Tot Day\", some sailors held mock funerals, mourning it as part of what the navy was.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "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"
}