God talks about "Honor Your Mother and Father". That's the only commandment that God has given us about family.

The role of family matters early. To set COMMON SENSE values into a child.

Such as

1. Thou shall not kill
2. Thou shall not steal
3. Respect elders (This is a spin-off of Honor your Mother and Father)
4. Thou shall not covet neighbors' wive (This is how we deal with sex and love)
5. Thou shall not worship graven images (This is not to worship celebrities, flags, logos, etc)

Your traditions and customs are created by ENTREPRENEURS who INNOVATE via competition.

A person should not put too much value into customs and traditions.

This is because INNOVATORS will always introduce breakthroughs that will DESTROY outdated traditions and customs.

So you are putting faith into something that will always change due to innovations changing them naturally.

Your local community will not matter to someone who wants to TRAVEL the world.

Your country and state. You only own your countrymen COMMON SENSE morality like the 10 commandments. Besides that... its YOUR life. You don't owe anyone anything else.

Your ethnic heritage is totally a SHEEP! WHO SETS YOUR HERITAGE!!!!??????

I'll tell you.

FAKE LEADERS of your tribe will set what your ethnic heritage is suppose to be.

God's commandments tells us not to let man set our identity and values.

GOD HAS ALREADY SET THE TRADITIONS AND VALUES for ALL PEOPLE!