Culture

1. What a culture essentially is is rather hard to define. One view of it is that is is the collection of custom?s, beliefs, shared history, language and mutual feeling of belonging among a group of humans. Cultures are often a magnitude larger than countries, and may spread across continents.

A culture often contains numerous subcultures. Subcultures incorporate large parts of their mother cultures, but in specific instances they may differ radically. Some subcultures achieve such a status that they aquire a name of their own. A recent example of a subculture in the western world is punk.

Culture has nebulous bindings to the word civilization, and may in some contexts be roughtly the same.

See also cultural anthropology, ethnicity

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2. The word culture may also refer to an expression of a culture. Examples of cultural expression in the western society is opera and rock.

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3. Culture can also refer to bacteria or something like that, grown in a [petri dish]? in a laboratory.

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