There are hundreds of definitions of "culture," but the one that most people who have made a living actually studying the subject will accept comes down to: Culture consists of learned behaviors which are passed on from one generation to the next. Culture gets modified as it gets passed along--it's a telephone game--but the key is in transmission.
There's also some lateralism involved, as in cultural drift, or cultural diffusion. This is how cultures grow and change (and sometimes stagnate and die).
Is "White" a culture? I'm not sure. Is the GOP a culture? Is a religion a culture? Or are they elements of a larger idea of identity?
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There are hundreds of definitions of "culture," but the one that most people who have made a living actually studying the subject will accept comes down to: Culture consists of learned behaviors which are passed on from one generation to the next. Culture gets modified as it gets passed along--it's a telephone game--but the key is in transmission.
There's also some lateralism involved, as in cultural drift, or cultural diffusion. This is how cultures grow and change (and sometimes stagnate and die).
Is "White" a culture? I'm not sure. Is the GOP a culture? Is a religion a culture? Or are they elements of a larger idea of identity?