Pictures Mauritania Links Special Projects La Perle Newsletter Home Mailing List Traditional Values vs. Modern Concepts by Mamadou Lamine Diallo Centuries in the past, societies existed.
Human beings are the creatures endowed with reason.
Wherever there is society, people set up rules with which society was organized and the ways of living. These sets of rules and ways are called values. As a matter of fact, to put these values in clear and specific context, people who lived according to those past values are called traditionalists. Those traditional values were well considered and they played fundamental roles within traditional societies. In the last hundred years, knowledge in science and technology has greatly increased.