Life in the Funnel (Balkan - Dinaric - Carpathian region) was good until the next migrant wave came in. Often, it meant you had to leave home to the mercy of fire, fleeing with a handbag and your family.
What would you want to relay to next generations and how would you make sure the message isn't lost?
The message my grandparents passed to me was: Learn, because what you know cannot be taken away from you! (in the context of the totalitarian communist regime, it was extremely meaningful, in a family that experienced NKVD and deportation to Siberia).
I think this is a key message and part of the BDC common culture.
Learning to build what they need with very little resources, simplicity and ingenuity are essential for survival in these conditions.
Another part that insured the message wasn't lost is art that encoded important information, including family and tribe history, into clothing and house utensils. And of course in music, dance and rituals.
Let me give a relevant example: the Carpathian traditional shirt (ie in Romanian) encodes family and local community history in patterns and colors.
Coding is done by girls (for themselves) and women (for boys and men) and decoding is done by every member of the community as part of social life.
It is handy to have the back-up copy of the life saving information on the clothes you're wearing, next time you hear "Honey, the Vandals are coming!".
And finally, I think that humor is also part of the local culture. No, I really do.
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