Monday 08/20/12
How do you define culture? Is it intrinsic or extrinsic? Explain.
Culture is the term given to describe and categorize different ways of live (e.x., you have the "x" culture, "y" culture, "z" culture and so forth). There are a few factors that people use to help categorize said culture/lives, such as food, location, music, clothing, language, morals, religious beliefs - the list can go on and on.
I believe that culture mostly, if not completely extrinsic, only for the idea that it would be silly to imagine your preferences were decided before you even got to see the world. It really ties back to the nature v. nurture argument, and the question can be simplified to this:
Is your culture decided from birth or your environment?
I believe the latter is more accurate: just because you may appear to belong to one culture does not mean you are (That would be stereotyping).
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