Definition of culture
Culture is the total accumulation of beliefs, customs, values, institutions and communication patterns that are shared, learned and passed through the generations in an identifiable group of people.
Characteristics of culture(10)
1、Culture is shared
Culture is a system of shared values beliefs or patterns of behaviors held in a group ,organization or society. It is not property of any individual. 2、culture is cumulative
Human beliefs, arts etc. are results of many generations. Every generations can discover the new things.
The new knowledge are added to what was learned in previous generations.
3、culture is learned
Culture is not inherent with any people.
Culture can not be genetically and automatically passed down from previous generations.
And it should be taught and learned by people. 4、culture is adaptive
Culture is created by humans. Humans have to adapt the environment . thus is in development bears the trait of being adaptive
5、culture is dynamic
At the same time that new culture are added, and the old ones are lost because they are no longer useful.
6、culture is symbolic
Symbols generally serve as communicative tools for a multitude purposes, on a persons as well as culture level.
7 、culture is relational
Culture is an organic whole. All the components of culture are interlinked.
8 、culture is implicit and explicit
Some layers culture are easy to be observe, like eating , dressing, talking. But the ideas underlying the behaviors are generally hard to know. Many scholars label the culture as iceberg.
9、 culture is universal 10 、culture is diversified
