Culture

As I sat down to write my paper, I looked up the word culture and started brainstorming. I made a list of words that has to do with culture and then I began thinking about my everyday life and everything I see and do and how it pertains to culture.

-attitudes

-behavior patterns

-development

-growing

-human works

-thought

-lifestyle

-rituals

-civilization

-society

-counter culture

-traits

-expressions

-breed

-social groups

I then asked my friends and family what they think of when they hear the word 'culture', this list is from their responses:

-gumbo

-mardi gras

-dancing

-family traditions

-genealogy

-customs

-languages

-french music

-other world cultures

-holidays dedicated to different races

-food

-coming of age

-diversity

-how people live their life & how they do things

-different religions

-ethics

I then found notes from my human geography class on 'material and non-material culture':

Material culture: physical objects that represent a cultural practice, for example Muslims adamant about wearing a headscarf because women could be seen as sex symbol. This is also an ex. of CODE OF CONDUCT

Non-material culture: wide-range of customs and beliefs passed from one generation to the next

Universalism: certain characteristics among cultures that is a universal range of knowledge, interests, and activities.

When I googled the world culture and looked through the images, this is what I found: