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Defining Culture
Title: Defining Culture
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 483 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Defining Culture
Some definitions of culture emphasize its basis in meaning. All human activity involves meaning, and this is what distinguishes it from the activity of non-human animal species. Culture, then, arises exclusively from human activity and excludes other species. Meaning presupposes language; in other words language, which is a unique characteristic of humans, at the same time characterizes culture.
Culture as Norms and Values
A more restricted definition of culture defines it as the values held …showed first 75 words of 483 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 483 total…official language. Traditionally American national feeling has not been ethnic but based on a sense of shared belonging and social identity which has meant that at least in theory anybody could become an American citizen but this required a commitment to English as the common language.
Living comfortably in a multicultural society means getting to know a little about other groups. No one culture has all the answers or the best ways of doing things.
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