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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.

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

See also cultural anthropology


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


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

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