What is Culture?
What is Culture? Is it earned or learned? The idea of culture has been permeating my mind for a while. What is it? Is it the breath of populi of activity in the streets at an organic street farmers market? Is it a select stylized handshake on Lake and Hiawatha? Is it two merchants arguing over spice prices with animated hands? No and yes. Culture according to Webster is: “the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time”. Now I’m not talking about culture in the sense of a posh, snobby art showing of post modernism where two ants are being eaten by a toad in a pond made of mayonnaise. What I’m trying to understand is culture in the sense of human interaction and understanding of themselves and others in their social environment. Why do I notice in the Mid-west that no one takes the last slice of that very fine Chicago pizza? Is the act of not appearing selfish in the context of pizza etiquette universal, or is the social mores mor...