"Culture is a product of historical experiences"".
Culture has always generated controversy for its innate ability to elude any exact meaning. What is culture? .
In ancient times it was defined as "the sum total of the equipment of the human individual, which enables him to be attuned to his immediate environment on the historical past on the other". It reflects in effect what humans have added to Nature .
Every society and culture has different ways of interpreting and defining occurrences by the way their own culture or society functions. "A society's culture, consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members"(Geertz 242).
To me culture is a society's way of life. Culture is people's ethnicity and their traditions carried down from generations past. Culture is also coerced and forced into our beliefs by government, parents, religion and society. There are many different kinds of cultures all around the world. Culture is a very important part of life and I feel it is a way of thinking, feeling, and believing. Culture affects every aspect of our everyday life from the food we eat to the music we listen to. .
Culture largely affects government by changing and setting standards of "normality" and establishing what is accepted within specific societies. In turn government also impacts and changes our culture. The people in this country vote for whom they want in government. This, in turn, shapes society by governing new laws and assimilating them into our culture. .
Culture also reflects people's traditions when it comes time for dinner. For example, in China they sit low to the floor on cushions and eat using chop sticks. In America they sit at the dinner table on chairs and eat using a number of utensils. In England they sip tea and even have set times for breaks to gather and have tea and crumpets. These eating styles are all directly tied into different people's cultures and Ethnic backgrounds.
