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#208671 - 01/03/13 12:48 AM Cultural values
Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel
maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757	What does the word culture mean to you? For example, do you immediately think of artistic productions of all kinds through history, or in terms of sociological and anthropological studies, or in terms of the way urban communities fit together, or in other ways entirely�? Be very interested to hear all your individual reactions to this word.

#208673 - 01/03/13 01:56 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: maverick]
Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 jenny jenny veteran
jenny jenny veteran Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	A culture is a evolving system of collective behavior for continuing the clade through time. Nothing less and nothing more.

#208675 - 01/03/13 02:31 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: jenny jenny]
Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass	..proffered jenny, presumptuously.

#208676 - 01/03/13 03:29 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: tsuwm]
Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 jenny jenny veteran
jenny jenny veteran Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	Originally Posted By: tsuwm ..proffered jenny, presumptuously. Not presumptiously, tsuwm, I answered the man's question...did you?

#208677 - 01/03/13 03:57 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: maverick]
Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 724 Avy old hand
Avy old hand Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 724	Culture to me means language, theatre, poetry, literature, dance and music. I think to me it means anything that is the creation of an individual that helps connect and helps communicate socially. I remember as a kid being told that india (or the subcontinent) is very rich culturally. I clearly remember asking the question what is culture and being told "music, dance etc."; it still didn't mean much to a child. I think culture is an adult concept, because the need to connect to society and to other individuals is more in an adult than in a child. PS: I wonder whether this post is going to have culturally rich attempts to share, connect and communicate or is one going to have to ignore or endure uncultured snide remarks and nastiness.

#208681 - 01/03/13 05:03 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: jenny jenny]
Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass	>>Nothing less and nothing more. >I answered the man's question...did you? nope: how could I possibly, given that?!

#208683 - 01/03/13 07:41 AM Re: Cultural values [Re: maverick]
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague	I would say culture is all that which is not nature. All different categories and various ways in which mankind left and leaves traces of cohabitation. Traditions, usages, changes, art,language,science, fashion, philosophy, the material world. All of it.

#208685 - 01/03/13 12:46 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: tsuwm]
Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel
maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757	I'm sure tsomeone of your intellect can rise above The Truth once more, to enjoy tsome tcivilised conversation Thanks for all contributions so far - anyone else putting a toe in the water? A common feature so far seems to tend towards seeing culture in a sociological light - but does not the 'value-free' nature of that response militate against the ideals of Avy's artistic production, which presumably implies some cleaving* to moral or aesthetic intent..? * Just for someone who loves the enantriodromic or Janusine :-)

#208686 - 01/03/13 01:54 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: tsuwm]
Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803	Originally Posted By: tsuwm >>Nothing less and nothing more. >I answered the man's question...did you? nope: how could I possibly, given that?! By telling mav what culture means to you, as jj told him what it means to her.

#208687 - 01/03/13 01:55 PM Re: Cultural values [Re: maverick]
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Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803	To me it means the collection of little yeastie-beasties in my yogurt.

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