What1s the practical meaning of CULTURE?
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Culture,is practic the only way that makes us different.
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“Every culture attempts to create a ‘universe of discourse’ for its members, a way in which people can interpret their experience and convey it to one another.  Without a common system of codifying sensations, life would be absurd and all efforts to share meaning would be doomed to failure.” \nDean Barnlund – “Communication In a Global Village” \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nLanguage reflects the special characteristics of each culture; its conventions, history, tradition, race, religion, and political stand. These cultural conventions do not only concern language, but also the way we view and perceive the world. That is why it is important for technical communicators to learn the conventions of a particular culture, and particularly its language, if they are to write the most suitable documentation for the target group. \n\nSince the 1970s the understanding of culture has gained more recognition as an important component in the study of a foreign language. No matter where we live, what language we speak, and what culture we represent, our cultural background forms the framework through which we perceive the world. \n\n  Differences in Structure \n\n\nAs native Finnish speakers writing technical documentation in English, we are most familiar with the conventions characterized by the Finnish language and culture. As we researched the topic, we studied a Finnish linguist’s (Anna Mauranen’s) comparisons of Finnish and Anglo-American scientific texts. Her findings confirmed the idiosyncrasies common to Finnish writers that we have also detected in our work. The texts differ not only in grammar and vocabulary, but in structure as well. Finnish writers usually compose their texts by starting from the general and moving into the specifics, whereas Anglo-Americans often state the main points in the beginning. Typically, they elaborate the main points throughout the text. Compared to the American way of writing, the Finnish style may require more from the readers, who themselves have the responsibility of finding the main points of the text. This point received general agreement at Comtec’97. \n\n  Role of Vocabulary \n\n\nAnother topic addressed in the idea market of Comtec ’97 was vocabulary. For example, in Finnish we have several descriptive words for snow, while American Indians have a similar broad choice in words to describe natural phenomena. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that though we firmly belong to a particular culture and, as such, possess an immense amount of culture-bound ways of behaving and expressing ourselves, we undoubtedly also exist as individuals, and have a particular gender. We therefore also observe the environment around us in our own personal way. \n\nMoreover, as the world widens for people through the use of modern technology, it sometimes appears that people are less aware of their immediate surroundings, and thus, they may know more about everyday life thousands of kilometers away than about life in the neighboring village. We also have to take into account that in addition to the person writing the document, an equally important party is the recipient, that is the person decoding the language. A noteworthy point here is that text production is always culture-bound and the text has a place in two cultures: in the writer’s and the recipient’s.   \n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Here's an article to start with.  \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Thailand
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Are we talking sociological definition?  What cultures norms and values do you want?
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There are two types or parts to culture, in the eyes of the sociologist, the material and the nonmaterial culture. A material culture is the part that is concrete and tangible. This includes things like buildings, art, or even a hairbrush. The nonmaterial culture is the opposite. It includes things like religion, philosophy, ideas, and beliefs
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is that a real place/culture of people?
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I found this on the net, hope its correct.\nContra-Culture:       A social group that has developed values and modes of behavior that are in conflict with the prevailing culture. (Juvenile gangs, female gangstas, Crips, Bloods, Latin Kings).
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Knowledge is what is known. Like the related concepts truth, belief, and wisdom, there is no single definition of knowledge on which scholars agree, but rather numerous theories and continued debate about the nature of knowledge.\n\nKnowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes: perception, learning, communication, association, and reasoning. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.\n\n\nWisdom is the ability, developed through experience, insight and reflection, to discern truth and exercise good judgment. Wisdom is sometimes conceptualized as an especially well developed form of common sense. Most psychologists regard wisdom as distinct from the cognitive abilities measured by standardized intelligence tests. Wisdom is often considered to be a trait that can be developed by experience, but not taught. When applied to practical matters, the term wisdom is synonymous with prudence. Some see wisdom as a quality that even a child, otherwise immature, may possess independent of experience or complete knowledge. Contemporary culture limits the importance of wisdom and intuition, particularly American culture; Wisdom/Intuition is a right brain activity, while logic is a left brain activity.\n\nThe status of wisdom or prudence as a virtue is recognized in cultural, philosophical and religious sources. Some define wisdom in a utilitarian sense, as foreseeing consequences and acting to maximize the long-term common good.
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There is no correlation between culture and soul.  Soul comes is a personal matter whereas culture is a public and social matter.  Changing your social customs does not change the inner core of a person.
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Mentifacts are the ideas, values and beliefs of a culture. Religion has shaped culture more than any other trait in the history of the world. The ancient Aztecs sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people for their religion. Sunday is considered a day of rest in most Christian cultures. Language is also an important mentifact. Languages adapt to suit a particular culture. Eskimos lives are dominated by living primarily in the snow and ice. Their language has over fifty words to describe different types of snow. We would be at a loss to describe all of the types of snow in the English language since snow isn't an important part of our culture.
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The culture before ISO: mostly people do their job without proper written job description, do as they like.\n\nThe culture after ISO: all people must write down what they do and how they do their jobs, and then they must do what they have written.\n\nISO can be understood and summarized as: "do what you write, write what you do".
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essentially, understanding anothe culture is all about experiencing another culture. You don't know what hunger is until you have been starved and you do not know what freedom is until you have been opressed. Also people think differently in other countries (the best news in the states comes from the brits) so it's quite an experience going abroad and I would highly reccomend it.
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Is there a certain country you are looking for?  Here's a link I hope it helps.  If you need more info, let me know.  I have also been studying culture so I have a lot of resources depending on the situations or countries.
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Cultural integration is the understanding and implementation of multiple cultural philosophies in an organizational context.\n\nCorporate culture is the organization's realization of vision of the future, philosophy of business and corporate goals.
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indain culture is the one which teaches a child to respect there parents and live with them all thru out there lives and never hurt them but in western cultures there is lot of freedom to the children where they can do any thing they want to and which leads to bad resutls.
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I really think that you know the answer already, you just need to articulate it. \n\n1. Decide what culture is. If you really need help here, then input "definition of culture" into your preferred search engine (I use www.dogpile.com).\n\n2. Now that you have the characteristics of culture, you can decide what falls within the definition. Religion could be a part , provided either that it is unique to that culture, or that religious observance is a significant feature of the culture. Being female, as such, is nothing to do with culture. However if there are unique features within the culture (e.g. styles of dress, or the role of women), then those are cultural characteristics.\n\n3. Here's a tip for the future. With any question, don't try to jump straight in. Consider what the essence of the question is. That's what 1. (above) is about. Also some questions may not make complete sense. In those cases it is quite justifiable to be critical of it. If you understand the reason behind the question, then you will be in a better position to answer.
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business culture, religious cultures, popular culture, high culture, ethnic cultures, etc...