What is Cultural transmission and why is it important?

Question

it is one of the features of language which are not biologically inherited but are learned within a society.

Answer 1

It describes the way cultural practices are passed from one generation to the next.

People put such an importance on cultural transmission because to cultural practices play a very important role in our identity.

For a person growing up in parts of India or west Africa Female Circumcision may be seen as a sacred ritual or rite of passage a woman must go through when she reaches puberty.   Where as I would see it as the barbaric mutilation of a child in order to greater control her body.

The difference here can be attributed to cultural transmission