The culture is...is a word hard to define. It is used very often in many contexts and it has many meanings. For many it is about manners and education; for other, about knowledge and wisdom, many more think is about high arts. But there is not a few who talk about culture like a way of living of different people or like a mind set that allows or forbids us to do certain things or take certain actions.
Papua Island has the highest cultural diversity in the world |
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Sartre was a intelectual that made several contributions to the culture with his books. But to What culture? |
For every case, culture looks like something deep and misterious, untouchable and incorporeal. Even when we talk about sculture or "material culture", as it use to said by archeologists when they talk about artifacts made by humans in ancient times. Even those objects don't capture all the complexity of term. The culture is in the simbolic ground.
There is further elements that aparently every definition has in common: the culture is always something done by, among and to humans. Humanity and culture are two very related concepts. There is no one without the other. Whether culture is education, only the humans have it, whether is arts, that is a human expresion, and as a mind set, that is a human mind. Then, explore the culture is, basicly, explore the human being and our complexity. Welcome Culture. Introducing to humankind.
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