CULTURE:

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CULTURE

• THE WAY OF LIFE OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO SHARE
  SIMILAR BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS

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TRAITS OF CULTURE

1. Social Groups
2. Language
3. Religion
4. Daily Life
5. History
6. Art
7. Government
8. Economy

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Social Groups

• Rich, poor, and middle class people
• Young and old
• Roles of men and women
• Ethnic Groups people who share a common
  history, language, religion, and some physical
  characteristics.
• You can have majority groups

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Language

• One of the strongest unifying forces for a
  culture.
• Even within a culture there can be language
  differences.
• Dialect local form of a language that differs
  from the main language in pronunciation or the
  meaning of words.

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RELIGIONThis helps people answer questions
about lifes meaning.
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MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS
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Daily Life

• What people eat and how they eat it
• What people wear
• How they build their traditional homes

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History

• History is the story of the past.
• History shapes how we view the world. We
  remember the successes of the past. Ex. Heroes
  and Heroines.
• A group also remembers dark periods of history.
  Ex. Disasters and defeat
• All these experiences influence how a group of
  people sees themselves.

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Arts

• People express their culture through the arts.
• Examples
• paintings
• sculptures
• dance
• music
• theater
• literature.
• All of these help us to gain insight into what
  people of that culture think is beautiful and
  important.

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Government
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Economy How People Make Money