CULTURE & DIVERSITY

Culture is a word at several definitions: beliefs, customs, way of life, natural, education etc

We doesn't have a culture, we learn it, we build it, we recognize it.

The exact definition of the dictionnary is: 

The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.

Our culture learning depends on the uniquely developed human capacity to use symbols, signs that have necessary or natural connection to the things they stand for or signify.

Moreover you can share your culture and you can discover different culture than yours in the world. 

A symbol of a culture can be the language, the food, the physical appearance (they are called our core values these one).

You can adapt your culture too, but hopefuly there are some generalities and universalities like the wedding or the music. 

Unfortunately it exists some ethoncentrism and people very close. It means like you see your culture as superior and to apply values in judging the behavior and beliefs of people raised in other cultures.

The contrary of this idea is the cultural relativism: Cultural relativism is the view that all beliefs, customs, and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context. In other words, “right” and “wrong” are culture-specific; what is considered moral in one society may be considered immoral in another, and, since no universal standard of morality exists, no one has the right to judge another society’s customs.
This video of 10min should be link with our course because this is very well explain and simple to memorize the concept of cultural relativism.