Friday, 20 April 2012

What is culture?

Many people had thought what is culture? and as you can think there had been answers from many theorist and experts on culture. Culture as i stated before can have many points of view and in fact what culture can have different conceptions  from each culture.

Some theorist say that that culture is something we aspire to, as says Matthew Arnold:"the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it". Other theorist for example  stayed that culture is something we develop, this is the case of Clifford Geertz  as he makes a metaphor between an spider web and culture in the way that we spun culture, its not something that just appeared but rather is the product of generation after generation of people from cultures that have and are developing their own culture.  I personally like Clifford Geertz ideas because its very logical and comprehensive that culture is like a spider web our society has craft and developed through time

Although there are many points of view about the definition and what is culture, we can say that a culture n simple words is  a society made up of individuals who must learn to adapt to each other and to their environment. The interactive activities  humans engage and teach  make up a culture heritage.


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