Culture!

Culture is such a funny word...no? I just wonder how they thought of such an ugly word (in my opinion) for such a beautiful reality. So for my culture blog i am going to tell you how the word "culture" came to be and what exactly it means. Exciting!

Culture came from the Latin word "Cultura" which originated from "Colere" meaning "to cultivate." Of course this is referring to the Agricultural term "Culture."
But what about the more commonly used "Culture"? Like for example a certain Country's Culture? WELL...
In the mid-nineteenth century, some scientists used the term "culture" to refer to a universal human capacity. Then, in the twentieth century, "culture" emerged as a concept central to anthropology, encompassing all human phenomena.

Culture can be summed up in 3 basic ways...
1)Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities
2)An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning
3)The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group

Now in the anthropological sense "Culture" could be described as..
1)The evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively.
2)The distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively.

Well, there you have it!! Culture in all its multi-meaning glory!!

Thank you wiki....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture