Since no one attempted to rebut my previous post on Dying Traditions, I'll do it myself:
We're from somewhere, and you aren't. We have roots. We have memories. We have a cultural heritage and identity that you have no idea about. You cannot even begin to understand what we feel because it's not something you have ever felt. Who are you to tell us that our traditions are dead? Who are you to tell us to get over it and move on? Move on to what? To an empty cosmopolitanism that doesn't care about or feel deeply about anything? What do you have to offer us that is better than what we have and cherish? Your pious abstractions don't cut it. So STFU.
While I think a little more about how I'd respond, I'll let the accusation sit here a couple of days.