What is Culture and Why Does it Matter?

Culture is how we do our thing. It matters because it defines us.

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Culture is our way of life. It includes our values, beliefs, customs, languages and traditions.  Culture is reflected in our history, in our heritage and in how we express ideas and creativity.

Our culture measures our quality of life, our vitality and the health of our society.  Through our culture we develop a sense of belonging, personal and cognitive growth and the ability to empathize and relate to each other. Direct benefits of a strong and vibrant culture include health and wellness, self esteem, skills development, social capital and economic return.

New Brunswick’s cultural policy renewal will address how culture is fostered, strengthened, recorded and preserved, and how our culture is expressed and re-interpreted.  It will touch on how we experience culture in our lives, the role of the arts in creating a vibrant cultural community, our natural, human and built heritage, and the role of culture as an economic driver.

Whether you attend a free concert in the park, visit a museum, attend a school play or sing in a choir, culture is present in many aspects of our daily lives.  Culture is a key part of wellness and learning, and can play a role in healing and social development.

Artists and arts organizations are central to the creation of works of art, cultural events and festivals, products and industries. Authors, theater companies, dancers, musicians, film makers, businesses or teachers, artists and arts organizations are at the heart of many of the cultural creations that we enjoy.

Our historic and contemporary buildings, museums, monuments, libraries, burial sites and sacred places, archaeology, artifacts and archives are all critical aspects in our culture and our heritage. Our living heritage – our traditions, customs and practices – along with our natural heritage, add to the legacy of our ancestors that are part of the identity and cultural life that we share.

Creative industries and enterprises are extremely significant aspects of our provincial and national economy.  Wealth is generated by cultural workers, small businesses, sole proprietors, non-profit organizations, media and marketing companies, and cultural tourism industries.  The creative economy relies on skilled cultural workers to create new ideas, enterprises and industries. It also helps attract new immigrants and helps retain our present citizens.

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Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies. Culture is most important to maintain relationship.

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. It matters because is the heritage of individual.

Culture refers to the customs and social behavior of the people in a given community and it highlights the manifestations of intellectual achievements belonging to the body of the people comprising that community collectively. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, " A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people". Therefore, we should do our best to preserve and respect our culture, but at the same time, we must continue to modify, change , and improve it because our self identity is reflected through the way our culture looks to the others.     

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Calture is define by Rev.Pandurang Adhavale :Way of living, Way of thinking and Way of worship.

Culture is way of life.Like my culture,

my civilization,my country,my relations, my citizens,my patriotism and regards to humanity and nature.

Way of living: are you living for enjoyment of your self or you are also living for other? Live for other people. Live for other creatures like trees and animals, live for better universe.

Culture is a strong part of people's lives. It influences their views, their values, their humor, their hopes, their loyalties, and their worries and fears. So when you are working with people and building relationships with them, it helps to have some perspective and understanding of their cultures.

Culture is the Centre of a society. without culture no society can exist. Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.. culture is important because our behavioral patterns, belief systems, principles, and ways of living are the derivatives of our culture

Thank you Dear Dr. J. M. Koli, Dr. Segun Michael Abegunde, Dr. Reza Biria, Dr. Anastas Ivanov Ivanov, Dr. Hemin Vardhilal Thakkar and Dr. Mahender Singh for your Contribution.

Thank you Dear Dr. Prabhjot Kaur, Dr. Hemin Vardhilal,Thakkar, Dr. Mohammad Mehdizadeh and Dr. Dhani Shanker Chaubey for your views.

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it covers all aspects of life;food, dressing; language , life style as an inseperable integrative element of context. the most comprehensive key term is culture.

Through our culture we develop a sense of belonging, personal and cognitive growth and the ability to empathize and relate to each other. Direct benefits of a strong and vibrant culture include health and wellness, self esteem, skills development, social capital and economic return.

Culture is a social behavior and a standard that exists in human societies. Culture is a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of phenomena transmitted through social learning in human societies. Some aspects of human behavior, and social practices

Many Thnaks to Dr. Farangis Shahidzade , Dr. Martin Gallasher and Dr. Zainab A Makawi for your active contribution and views.

Culture is a key part of wellness and learning, and can play a role in healing and social development.

Thank you Dr. Brian Fulknar for great contribution.

The general characteristics of a particular group or society which refer to the social norms, habits, songs, dancing, poetry, that distinguish one group from another. All these norms can be used as attributes associated to a particular society and remains as its distinguishing features for a long time

Thank you Dr. Hazim Al Dilaimy for your active reply.

Culture matters to globalization, to economic and social rights, and to civil and political rights because the very idea of rights is a cultural construct.

Organizational Culture is connected to two very important sets of outcomes – people and productivity. The people outcomes include member satisfaction and employee engagement and all of the subsequent outcomes such as turnover, sick pay, grievances and stress. The productivity outcomes include individual and group motivation, customer service quality and interest in quality improvement initiatives.

The importance of culture stems from its definition. Culture is defined as the refinement of the human psyche, a set of behaviors that are followed to assess the behavior of individuals and societies. The true meaning of culture is reflected in its emergence in the beliefs and ideas adopted by individuals, in addition to the speed of intuitive decision-making, in the expression of oneself in a proper manner, in addition to participation in the talk and respect for the other opinion.

I agree with Dr. Martin

Whether you attend a free concert in the park, visit a museum, attend a school play or sing in a choir, culture is present in many aspects of our daily lives.

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Way of thinking: Our thoughts must be positive. Thinking for me. Thinking for other.Thinking for God.

Culture is our way of life. It includes our values, beliefs, customs, languages and traditions.  Culture is reflected in our history, in our heritage and in how we express ideas and creativity.

Way of worship: It is the way to connect our self with God. My mind must take the shape of super personality like Krishna, Mahhamad

Pegambar and Ishu Khrishta.

Thanks Vinod K Singh, Farangis, Martin and Anastas

Culture is way of life; that's why culture is important!

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Good question, I follow answers

Way of worship: It is scientific method for empowering our mind.

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

― Ray Bradbury

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”

― Alan Watts

“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”

― Naomi Wolf,

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

― Joseph Fort Newton

Culture is "know every thing about thing and thing about every thing".

culture is our life, control many things in our life.

Social behavior and the standard of assessment of human societies.

Good question, I follow answers.

Culture defines you-it is what you are. The ideas that permeate from poetry, technology, clothing make you-your personality, thoughts and feelings.

Very good and interesting discussions!

It make human being better than other animals. It teaches us to work for other.

Culture is indicator of progress of society. it is very subjective.

civilization advances culture declines.

this is impact of globalization.

Calture teaches how and why to pray God? Praying God for telling thanks for human life and promising better behaviour.

Thank you dear Hemin Vardhilal Thakkar for you views.

Culture is a set of customs, traditions, ideas, and social behaviors of a particular people or society. Furthermore,, Culture could be defined as a complex whole which includes language, knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. For more, please visit:

Ref: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/.../interculturalskills/global_pad_-_what_is_culture.pdf

Strong calture required strong thoughts.

Culture is about the advanced language of How to behave with others and others behave with you as well

It is also your behavior identity

“My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”

― Tahir Shah

“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”

― Criss Jami

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”

― Naomi Wolf,

“Language is the key to the heart of people.”

― Ahmed Deedat

It matters a lot like it binds us together..

It is part of our personality

culture is some bodies method for life.

Culture has its roots right from our family where we have grown up & subsequently it reflects in our social surrounding covering the culture aspect of it . This being the initial stage as now we live in the 21 st century & as such our culture is not restricted only in the group or religion but it has transferred to the entire humanity .

With this sometimes back I have my publication under the captioned'' Civil Society - The Master Key to culture '' which I submit herewith for your kind perusal to offer your valuable opinion .

This is my personal opinion

Ready to accept good things.

Calture teaches to live together and work together.

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A definition of culture still needs to be discovered. If culture is what makes us human, do animals have culture? Some animals have language, make tools, and demonstrate love or affection. In the process of evolution, at what moment were there only animals, and then there was a human?

Culture is our answers to existing questions.

Culture, through my understanding, is the way people behave in society or how they do things. They are also closely associated with traditions. if there was one singular culture, life would be mighty boring. Everyone doing stuff the same way. Where's the fun in that? I love that there are so many cultures. I can try out new ways and things every time because of that. And, if I need to spell it out, variety adds spice to life.

People relationship with other people.

Culture is a strong part of people's lives. It influences their views, their values, their humor, their hopes, their loyalties, and their worries and fears. But I'm shocking to see the religion has successfully evicted the culture in many societies, countries.

Culture is a collection of words, actions, thoughts and “stuff” that clarify what truly is valued inside an organization.

This definition of culture is different from all the other conventional ones where culture usually is related to words like quality, honesty, integration. Most organizations fail to understand culture is more about actions than words.

Work for God,work for country,work for society,work for neighbours and work for other people.

Selfless contribution to other.

Good question ...following to learn

Culture plays an important role in the identity of a nation.

Culture is what makes us human.

Selfless work and selfless love.

Culture is the method of dealing and learning from others where the aspiration to society and countries provide the other cultures that makes him more forward looking ...

Calture means living for other

Culture is the product of human creativeness.

It is our second nature.

We published paper on European Capital of Culture where there are interesting insights on culture https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/orga/51/1/article-p66.xml?lang=en

Culture is our inheritance and gives us an identity to relate to others.

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

The Center for Advance Research on Language Acquisition goes a step further, defining culture as shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by socialization. Thus, it can be seen as the growth of a group identity fostered by social patterns unique to the group. 

"Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet visitors, how we behave with loved ones, and a million other things," Cristina De Rossi, an anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College in London, told Live Science.

The word "culture" derives from a French term, which in turn derives from the Latin "colere," which means to tend to the earth and grow, or cultivation and nurture. "It shares its etymology with a number of other words related to actively fostering growth," De Rossi said.

Culture represents a collaboration of human behaviors and its values expressed in specific life-style patterns, practices, beliefs, inventions and interactions, components that represent the infrastructure of a cultural society.

Culture is what makes us human.