What is culture and can it change?
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Culture: culture has to do with pretty much anything & everything it seems. It is everything from the music you listen to, the food you eat, the holidays you celebrate, how you celebrate those holidays, why you celebrate them, how you dance, or even sing, your mannerisms, the way you approach a situation, how you dress, etc. A lot of this can also sometimes just be individual personality traits; however, our cultures do have a large impact on how we think and act.\n\nAs far as can they change, I would definitely say yes. Look at how so many modern day European countries ( as well as the U.S.) were influenced culturally by how the ancient Greeks lived. I also think that, for example, when someone from another country emmigrates to the U.S. they take their culture with them, but a lot of times end up blending it with American culture as well and it becomes its own.  To me anyways, Asian-American culture is a lot different, but also very similar, to that of just an Asian or American culture; and so on. I hope you know what I mean ;-)
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I cannot teach you but I can point you to an interesting book about the topic:\nThe American Way: An Introduction to American Culture\nhttp://web.utk.edu/~mccay/mybooks/esl_list/details/8204.html
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Yes, it needs to be stopped.  If people want to come to America and bring their culture that is fine as long as they don't expect their new country to change go out of its way for them.  Become bi-cultural, join the new one but also preserve yours.  And come legally
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what do you mean, "role of culture"?
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Of course you should be allowed to hold on to your culture...as long as you aren't trying to force your culture onto other people, or change their culture to suit you. For example, if I were mentally and physically retarded and decided to move to France, I wouldn't expect the French to learn to communicate with me in English or expect them to install ramps everywhere, so that I could get around in my wheelchair better, or expect the country to support me via welfare, and then claim discrimination when the French complained about doing that. Lots of immigrants to the U.S. expect current citizens to change their culture, and most people don't want to do that. Most people here welcome any immigrants who come in legally, work for a living and learn the language: English. Aside from that, you can do whatever you want within the limits of the law. Live and let live.
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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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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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the UN defines culture as el gathering of caracteristics such as spiritual, materal, intelectual and social belownigs of a group, so the importance of the cultural heritage is to give to the next generation a bit of what we are and what are ancester were, remember the one who forgot history only manage to repeat it.
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First you must understand that everyone and every organization believes in different types of politics and depending on there cultural background have different ways to look at everything differently than you. As our world becomes more and more based on information from "mass media" it is natural that our world will have more cultural clashes.
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All organizatios have cultures and it is necessary to communicate to employees what is acceptable within an organization's culture. Orientation performs the task of communicating to employees what kind of behaviour and attitudes are expected from him/her.
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Language defines the way you thinks and what you think about. It also has an effect on a cultures values.\n\nSo if different cultures have different values, ways of thinking and interpration of events their will be clashes as different cultures interpret the same events differently
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The culture of organisation is the almagamation of the values and beliefs of people in the organisation. The features that can be used to compare the cultures of two organisations are stated below:\n\n1. the company policies\n2. the organisational structure of reporting and     \n   relationships\n3. job design\n4. work flow and work load\n5. personnel practices\n6. management and supervisory styles
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There are obvious cultural differences that exist between peoples, such as language, dress and traditions, there are also significant variations in the way societies organise themselves, in their shared conception of morality, and in the ways they interact with their environment. It is debatable whether these differences are merely incidental artefacts arising from patterns of human migration or whether they represent an evolutionary trait that is key to our success as a species. By analogy with biodiversity, which is thought to be essential to the long-term survival of life on earth, it can be argued that cultural diversity may be vital for the long-term survival of humanity; and that the conservation of indigenous cultures may be as important to humankind as the conservation of species and ecosystems is to life in general.
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I guess that depends on what you mean by a culture. There are many places which had basically no government structure, and encountering democracy was just confusing. Democracy itself isn't necessarily going to damage something, but the trappings of our current democratic cultures can interfere with other cultures. Free trade, for example, can cause local communities to be at the mercy of outsiders, when they were living on subsistence prior to that. Changing to a trading culture can cause the local resources to become depleted if population increases around artificial income and outside sources of food, then economic conditions change and the increased population can no longer be supported. Democracy, or come kind of chosen government, vs. a monarchy or dictatorial government is more of a matter of choices by the people. If the people, however, are not informed, or the information they have is wrong, then they could lose their control by voting for things they don't understand, or people who are lying to them. One of the reasons the United States is actually not a democracy, but a republic is so that there are levels of election to counter specific groups. Unfortunately, this system was designed before anyone imagined how powerful that corporate influence could become (buying multiple branches of government, writing laws, being considered 'persons'). Thomas Jefferson's ideal vision was for a country full of small farmers, providing food and resources based on knowledgeable living and care, voting for local representatives and those representatives voting for Federal representatives. This vision was dependent on honesty, intelligence, and fairness, none of which are dominant in today's system. The best example of a culture damaged by democracy is the culture of the self-sufficient person. Democracy demands groupthink. Groupthink leads to propaganda , influence peddling, and the devaluation of the individual in favor of the group. Republicanism (not the kind who are in office now) is supposed to encourage local control of local representatives (feedback by pitchfork, if you will), who, in turn, control their representatives.
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I am pretty sure it is the ease of which a culture trait or technology can move from one culture to another, and the "worth" of the transfer, if the cost of bringing this technology is worth the effect it will have on the culture.
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culture is passed on from generation to generation,you will treat your kids the same way your parents treated you,the same way your grand parents treated your parents unless external forces such as education,etc modify that indigenous knowledge.
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it's a side effect of multi-culturalism.