What is Culture?
Introduction
What is Cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static? Culture means different things to different people. Usually we think of material things that may seem to stereotype people to a specific group or culture. We might think about Chinese foodany nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth or Indian headdresses, or Greek salads, or African drumming as culture, which are definitely part of those cultures. Much more often, we tend to connect culture to the way people look – their outward appearance and dress. When we meet someone for the first time, we judge them outwardly to decide what culture they might be from. What we see first is the phenotypethe observable physical or biochemical characteristics of an organism or outside appearance, which can give you a clue to a person’s culture, but far from absolute.
Example
The picture above illustrates how the first things we notice about others are the differences (phenotypesthe sets of observable (visual) characteristics of an individual; noticeable traits such as hair color/texture, eye color/shape, skin color, or any other characteristics that might result from the interaction of its genotype (or genetic constitution) with the environment More) in outward appearances. No human being is the same as any other; and the outside appearance is not all that makes up diversitythe state of being diverse or different, variety and/or diversity is more than exhibiting "different" outward appearances; diversity is often much more about cultural differences. In fact all the young people in the photo above may all be Americans. They may all have been born in America by parents that were also American born. They may all look different, but they may all be culturally alike.
However, if each person in the picture was born and raised in a different cultural region, he/she would be much more culturally diverse than what his/her appearance might indicate. Diversity is so much MORE than outward appearances. This is the primary reason everyone should study culture. In order to embrace diversity, we must first embrace culture.
Culture
Culture gives us appropriate models for marriage and familya family is group of people consisting of parents and children living together in a household; family members can also live away from parents or in a different household structures; it teaches us what to eat or not eat; it is about the institutions we all frequent such as school, church, hospital, or Facebook. Many people believe culture is about going to the opera or the ballet, or knowing which works of artthe expressive or application of human creative skill and imagination in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, or in music, literature, or dance; art is created primarily for beauty and emotional power; and "holds art is anything the viewer or listener finds aesthetically pleasing." depict what; but in reality culture is simply about everyday life. It is about what time people awake in the morning and everything else each person does until he/she retires to bed each night. In fact, culture is also about what kind of bed individuals and families sleep in, and who they sleep with.
The anthropologythe holistic study of humanity in its broadest context in all times and places, ancient and contemporary genre is a scientific approach to learning about the human experience, particularly culture. We will use this approach in these lessons about culture. What is Culture? with four lessons, is a complimentary course. It is an example of the procedures for all the other courses offered.
In other words, culture is about what activities we like, whether we are a participant or an observer. Culture is about how people earn a living, where and how each of us acquires food. It is how people do their laundry or get the water they drink. It is also about those unspeakable topics like toilet facilities, and the hygiene practices that are part of such necessary daily routines.
Just For Fun
See how others’ spaces and places cultural activities look different. Notice the diversity, but not the phenotype. See the video:
Turn up the volume, to get the full effect! Activities with symbolic clothing and adornmentsdecorations or ornaments, including body art such as tattoos, body painting, and piercing More vary around the world.
What is Culture?
In other words our lives are all about culture. Globalizationall nations and peoples are interconnected in today's world due to massive flow of goods and services, importation of labor, immigration, technology, finance capital, outsourcing of businesses, and diseases, etc.; globalization promotes rapid culture change and adaptations, which increasingly blurs the lines of cultural components forces are escalating cultural changes everywhere, which affect local communities. Acquiring knowledge about culture is perhaps the most important course of study, which everyone needs in the 21st century. Some of the things you will learn in this course are: how culture is created, how culture distributes power within societies, and how languagea system of symbols that allow people to communicate with each other, also the MOST symbolic way that culture is passed down, globalization and adaptationculture is the primary way that humans adapt to their environmental surroundings More are making cultures more dynamica process or system, characterized by constant change, activity, or progress; in this way culture is dynamic than ever before.