What does culture mean

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What does culture mean?
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In Mongolia the nomads creed of never turning
away a visitor is still entrenched in the
culture. I believe I could have made my journey
without tent or supplies and never been stuck for
a tent (or ger) to rest or a plate of mutton to
keep me upright in the saddle.---Richard
Siberry, National Geographic, April 2004
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After listing all the superficial characteristics
he is looking for in a female, Hal says, Oh,
yeah, shes got to be into culture and shit
too.--- Shallow Hal (2001)
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My dream is to have one from every country,
every different religion, every background, every
different culture---well, not every culture, but
many different ones so I can get them together
and watch them share.--Angelina Jolie, on how
many kids she wants to adopt (Fall 2004)
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Yeah, we got to do something about the conga
section. Theyre not friendly. Theyre not
interacting. I guess they have different cultural
backgrounds.White freshman male about
African-American dorm mates who like disco (not
the Grateful Dead), quoted in Michael Moffatts
Coming of Age in New Jersey (1989)
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Culture, or Civilization, taken in its wide
ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which
includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law,
custom, and any other capabilities and habits
acquired by man as a member of society. ---E.B.
Tyler, Primitive Culture (1871)
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Culture is the transmitted and created content
and patterns of values, ideas, and other
symbolic-meaningful systems as factors in the
shaping of human behavior and the artifacts
produced through behavior---Talcott Parsons and
Alfred Kroeber (1958)