Why could traditional belief pass from generation to generation?

传统的信仰为什么会传承给下一代？

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By analogy, memes also get replicated and in the process pass on cultural information from person to person, generation to generation.

以此类推，模因也被复制，并且在这个过程中，文化信息在人与人之间、代际之间进行传递。

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So why do we pass this and other superstitions down from generation to generation?

那么，为何人们会将这种迷信以及其它迷信代代相传？

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And secondly, I'd ask him for his honest views on whether, at this time in American history, we should be repealing the estate tax or whether he thinks that great wealth should not pass from generation to generation without some piece of it being nicked for the public treasury.

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And combining the result with Iceland's excellent medical records, which stretch back the best part of a century, means that the map can be used to identify disease genes as they pass from one generation to another.

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Yes, a few journalists, including me, have shed some light on how they managed to build and pass along such Brobdingnagian wealth from one generation to the next and the next. (Currently, 10 members of the Pritzker clan, including Penny, are individually rich enough to be on the Forbes 400 list.) But the family has remained largely mute on the subject.

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