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Band 7+: Do you think traditional skills, like handcrafts, are becoming irrelevant in today's world?

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I don't actually think that traditional skills, like handicrafts, are becoming irrelevant in today's world, as they show authenticity and uniqueness in growth itself. As we can see, everything can be automated and artificial, and it's not authentic anymore. Handicrafts can represent real traditions, history, and culture, and they help us learn more about the people and the country itself. It's more connected to humanity; our world today is filled with manufactured things. We need to be more connected to nature and to humanity itself.

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I don’t actually think that traditional skills like handicrafts are being irrelevant in today’s world as it shows authenticity and uniqueness in the growth itself. As we can see, everything can be automated and artificial and it’s not authentic anymore. or handicrafts can show like real traditions, history, culture, and it helps so much to know more about the people, the country itself, and it’s more like human territory, it’s not like manufactured, our today’s world is a lot of manufactured things. it to be more like connected to the nature and to humanity itself.

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