What is culture?

Culture, what is it? Given a clear complete definition is always a difficult question. Nearly 200 different definitions exist in academic area so far. The culture itself is an interesting and diverse topic.

EB Taylor an anthropologist from England once mentioned in his book: “culture or civilization which is multiple integrality, include acknowledge, religion, Art, virtue, Law, country convention, and as member of part of the society who hold an ability of learning other things and his behavior to act.” Clyde Kluckhohn, another anthropologist from America said from his book: “people get culture by learning; culture has structure; culture is divided by different aspect; culture is dynamic; culture is changeable and has its own regularity; culture is tool for individual to adapt the environment, is a way to express their creativity.”

For me, I think culture can be distinguished from the what food we eat, what kind of clothes we dress, communication of the language, the TV program we watch in the leisure time, the online instant chat tool we use (MSN, QQ etc.)

Culture defines people identity which makes them unique and different from people of other cultures. Culture is something we learn from our family, college, and society.  Culture is so important because culture is a part of us, and tell others "who we are".

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