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Janko
Gambia
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 Posted - 15 May 2007 : 11:43:54
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What is Culture?
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Clean your house before pointing a finger ... Never be moved by delirious Well-wishers in their ecstasy |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 15 May 2007 : 12:14:46
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culture is set of standards and expections |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 15 May 2007 : 14:03:12
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Originally posted by jambo
culture is set of standards and expections
Excellent summing up jambo,who can argue with that  "sister Omega" maybe. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Janko
Gambia
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Posted - 15 May 2007 : 15:42:24
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To put more flesh on the bone I took this from Wikipedia which I hope will open up the topic
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate,") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Different definitions of "culture" reflect different theoretical bases for understanding, or criteria for evaluating, human activity. In general, the term culture denotes the whole product of an individual, group or society of intelligent beings. It includes technology, art, science, as well as moral systems and the characteristic behaviors and habits of the selected intelligent entities. In particular, it has specific more detailed meanings in different domains of human activities.
Anthropologists most commonly use the term "culture" to refer to the universal human capacity to classify, codify and communicate their experiences symbolically. This capacity has long been taken as a defining feature of the humans. /---/[1] It can be also said that culture is the way people live in accordance to beliefs, language, history, or the way they dress.
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Clean your house before pointing a finger ... Never be moved by delirious Well-wishers in their ecstasy |
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Santanfara
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Posted - 15 May 2007 : 18:40:07
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Originally posted by Janko
To put more flesh on the bone I took this from Wikipedia which I hope will open up the topic
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate,") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Different definitions of "culture" reflect different theoretical bases for understanding, or criteria for evaluating, human activity. In general, the term culture denotes the whole product of an individual, group or society of intelligent beings. It includes technology, art, science, as well as moral systems and the characteristic behaviors and habits of the selected intelligent entities. In particular, it has specific more detailed meanings in different domains of human activities.
Anthropologists most commonly use the term "culture" to refer to the universal human capacity to classify, codify and communicate their experiences symbolically. This capacity has long been taken as a defining feature of the humans. /---/[1] It can be also said that culture is the way people live in accordance to beliefs, language, history, or the way they dress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
continue janko you seems to be heading somewhere . from a business point of view it is simply ''what happens in a set of community ' |
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
www.suntoumana.blogspot.com |
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Alhassan
Sweden
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Posted - 15 May 2007 : 22:00:57
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Originally posted by Janko
What is Culture?
Janko,
To me culture is a way of life.
This includes food, social standerds,economy,values and eticths. |
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 May 2007 : 22:43:27
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Culture is what we are immersed in, what we hardly notice until it is pointed out to us. It is an organic part of who we are.
Culture is difference. Culture is what distinguishes one group from another. So in uk in 1960s it would be mods and rockers..... different bikes, attitude to life, clothes and music.
Culture gets more entrenched the more threatened people feel. So English people abroad are even more english than english people at home!
In cities in UK where there are lots of migrants the local community will become more english because they feel threatened.
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2007 : 02:01:22
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Culture consists of four parameters:
1. Values
2. Norms,
3. Institutions
4. Artifacts(technology which has two parts: techincal hardware(machinery tools etc) and human software(education, skills ect)
See you later. |
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salimina
253 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2007 : 02:32:13
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| At last the kondorong is back! |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2007 : 10:47:37
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| kons, so cool, your posting makes sense |
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serenata
Germany
1400 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2007 : 15:50:21
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| Hey Kondorong, nice to see you are back. Your definition is perfect. |
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 May 2007 : 22:39:08
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Greetings Everyone,
Hi Toubab1020 thanks for the challenge. Nice to see you back on board Kondorong good answer to Janko’s simple but complex question.
I thought I’d choose the easy way out and get some definitions of culture from internet sources and open up the debate further. Which definition do you all think best summarizes Culture and Why?
1.The accumulated habits, attitudes, and beliefs of a group of people that define for them their general behavior and way of life; the total set of learned activities of a people.
www.geographic.org/glossary.html
2. The values, traditions, norms, customs, arts, history, folklore, and institutions that a group of people, who are unified by race, ethnicity, language, nationality, or religion, share.
wind.uwyo.edu/sig/definition.asp
3. Common beliefs and practices of a group of people. The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
www.cr.nps.gov/seac/terms.htm
4.Learned behavior of people, which includes their belief systems and languages, their social relationships, their institutions and organizations, and their material goods - food, clothing, buildings, tools, and machines.
nde.learningoptions.net/standards/standss/geocont/geogloss.html
Peace
Sister Omega
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2007 : 10:19:49
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| sister omega, fab answer once again an educational answer how is the day |
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toubab1020
12314 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2007 : 11:50:29
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Originally posted by Sister Omega
Greetings Everyone,
Hi Toubab1020 thanks for the challenge. Nice to see you back on board Kondorong good answer to Janko’s simple but complex question.
I thought I’d choose the easy way out and get some definitions of culture from internet sources and open up the debate further. Which definition do you all think best summarizes Culture and Why?
1.The accumulated habits, attitudes, and beliefs of a group of people that define for them their general behavior and way of life; the total set of learned activities of a people.
www.geographic.org/glossary.html
2. The values, traditions, norms, customs, arts, history, folklore, and institutions that a group of people, who are unified by race, ethnicity, language, nationality, or religion, share.
wind.uwyo.edu/sig/definition.asp
3. Common beliefs and practices of a group of people. The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
www.cr.nps.gov/seac/terms.htm
4.Learned behavior of people, which includes their belief systems and languages, their social relationships, their institutions and organizations, and their material goods - food, clothing, buildings, tools, and machines.
nde.learningoptions.net/standards/standss/geocont/geogloss.html
Peace
Sister Omega
So,my challange was not difficult and you took "the easy way out" shame I was looking forward to some real contraversial stuff !!!! 
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Janko
Gambia
1267 Posts |
Posted - 19 May 2007 : 00:29:20
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Culture is also a structure, a set of laws that keep a group together, ex. in relationships between elders and youngsters, between men and women. Or a set of rules that regulate different functions within the group, like labour, occupation and so fort…… who takes care of the economy, whose job is to share duties to the individual members........a smith or a Jali can´t have any other occupation or marry outside the group, but of course this keeps on changing with time (today we can marry or have the occupation we like)
Culture can influence and be influenced, for ex. we have taken values, attitude and practices from say Islam and others have taken things from us as well, ex. there is a group in Ohio; “The Oberlin Mandinka Ensemble formed in 1977. Is a study group dedicated to learning to play the kora, a 21-string bridge harp, the balo, a xylophone, the bolon, a 4-string harp, and to sing in the Mandinka language. The repertoire is from the Mandinka people of The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, and Mali, and is known as jaliyaa./---/.” They perform songs about historical and contemporary figures in Mandingka culture. http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/rknight/Mandinka%20f06/Mandinka06.html
So every cultural entity is a complete system that has the ability to deal with all aspects of life, political, economical and judiciary. But because culture is dynamic, an ongoing processes these rules and regulations change with time to suit the context here and now.
Daali suboula……
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Clean your house before pointing a finger ... Never be moved by delirious Well-wishers in their ecstasy |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 19 May 2007 : 01:26:52
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Yes the set of laws are covered under institutions. When some memebers of a society try to deviate from norms, especially the values, society reacts by enforcing laws to keep them at bay and to ensure they conform to the values. Structure is the same as instututions. |
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