Culture

Mead (1955) said that culture “is an abstraction of the body of learned behaviour which a group of people who share the same tradition transmit entire to their children, and, in part, to adult immigrants who become members of the society.”

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Def.

1. "[t]he arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation",
2. "[t]he beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life",
3. "[a]ny knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings", or
4. "[t]he language and peculiarities of a geographical location"

is called a culture.

"A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies."

See also

• Cross-cultural training tutorial
• Dominant group/Culture
• Social environment