Folk Tradition

To honest coming from an Africian culture through my parents, we don't have many traditions that we do except a few. In our culture when you get a job you have to donate your first check to charity as good, so i guess goodbye $235.00 i made at age 16 at my first job. But it paid off later cuz there were aq few situations where i could have been let go but i wasn't. I feel we make trations for our own reason. like Christmas is a world wide tradition but every celebrates it in their own way which makes it special. My family every christmas eve bake cookies and watch a christmas movie together as a family but i feel kind of bad becuase i've broken it 3 times in a row now becuase i never like the movies they pick,but is the tradition not special? Traditions are created for specific reasons, not becuase it's a "tradition"