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Culture Are All Around Us -- Defining Essay

¶ … culture are all around us -- defining and influencing our lives. Understanding culture allows individuals to understand more about their own behaviors. Find and present two definitions of culture from two different sources. Which elements are similar? Which elements differ?

When you think about your own culture, what are the elements that you feel most connected to (e.g., language, values, food, arts, and religion)? Explain why.

What elements of a culture may be difficult to embrace and accept? Explain why.

Culture is indeed all around us and has an indelible impact on the way that we communicate, along with the way that we view ourselves and our world. One definition of culture that was discovered was that, "Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving" (tamu.edu). Another definition of culture is "Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts" (Zimmerman, 2012). The elements of overlap in these two...

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Music, art, language, objects -- are all things created by people which can't help but thus influence people. One definition refers to these elements more as the deposits of others, and the other definition refers to culture as these elements acting more as innate qualities of the individual.
When I think of my own culture, the elements that I feel most connected to are media-based ones. Elements like the Internet, Youtube, television and cinema I feel are the most accurate portrayals of our cultural values and priorities, ones which both reflect the ways that we are, and the ways that we wish we were. The elements of a culture that are the most difficult to accept and embrace are namely the flaws of a culture, such as certain vestiges of the past which are monstrous. For example, racism still persists in the United States as we have a nightmarish history of slavery, segregation, and lynchings. All of these elements are rather difficult to embrace.

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Tamu.edu. (2013). Culture. Retrieved from tamu.edu: http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/choudhury/culture.html

Zimmerman, K. (2012). What is Culture? Definition of Culture. Retrieved from livescience.com: http://www.livescience.com/21478-what-is-culture-definition-of-culture.html
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