English 113-102, Short Story 1(The Lottery), TALK ABOUT TRADITIONS!

            So in class we were discussing how winning the lottery in the story The Lottery, was a practice tradition.  In the story, winning the lottery was practice a lot and being the winner isn't particularly a good thing to win because the winner gets stone to death as a sacrifice for a good year.  Traditions are like rituals practiced and pasted down through generations.  In contras to The Lottery, my culture still follow an old tradition of a dowery(exchanging money or merchants for a girl's hand in marrage), which I'm not to fond of(but it's Kool.  I guess...).
 
            In the United States, dowery is against the law so is smoking crack, but people still do them.  In this case I don't care to much for the law, but that doesn't mean I'm a bad citizen.  I grew up in an American pop culture liking the idea of an American wedding and being told I have to pay for my future wife to top it all off isn't funny.  If I date someone out of my culture and religion, I could escape the traditional dowery, but in my case that doesn't look like escape is an option.  No one is really going to force me, and so I will give a dowery out of curtousy.  My culture clash with the American culture is slowly changing ours; breaking old traditions forcing our culture to adapt, and survive under U. S. regulations.
  
           So can money really buy love?  Not sure, but I think it can.  Don't get it confused with money buying happyness.  I love my culture so I won't break some old traditions.  There are many from my culture whom has broken the traditions already so I'm releaved the elders are more understanding than they were back in their old home country.