Since I have discussed right and wrong on how one should act in one's culture and society, I would like to take a minute and discuss folk traditions. Folkways is a type of informal behavior, for example the way one would behave in Las Vegas or New Orleans during Mardi Gras. This is not how we generally act when we are in a social environment around our own culture, but sometimes we need to let go and release our inhibitions. When thinking about this part of non-material elements of culture, we also need to think about what can be considered abnormal for me and can be considered normal for you. Since I am a lesbian, my social standards are a bit more refined, as I choose to not allow others to judge for what I am but for who I am. When I was younger I was considered a freak or a broken person, because I didn't find the opposite sex sexually intriguing, but I'm not broken, I just have a different way of looking at things, that's what my mother told me. me when I came out to him. In the early years this would have been considered taboo, among other things, like a man dressing in women's clothing or a man changing his gender because he is uncomfortable in his own body. Popular traditions are considered