What is culture ?
E.Taylor was the first person to define what culture is. According to him “ Culture or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.”
The culture of a society is both frozen and alive.It's frozen because we keep the culture of the past from generation to generation and this knowledge will not change, but it also evolves through time.
Culture is alive, it changes, it exchanges with other cultures and other societies everyday, creating new way to communicate, to speak, to work ...
Culture gives an identity, a personnality and a background to the people.The people sharing the same culture creates the society, so without the culture there is no society.
We can also say that a person carries his culture within his society and that a person without a culture is impossible.That's why culture is essential.
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