Your Culture

[cheater123]

Formy homework I need to ask people what they think 'culture' is in their own words and what their culture means to them.

Could you please answer this? Thankyou.

p.s I have got friends to ask but they would probably all say the same thing so I thought you guys would give a better response!!!! Thanks again!!

[rampart]

To me, culture means a particular group of people (or animals, I suppose) at a particular time. What my culture means to me: I live in a traditional upper-middle class region consisting of homes, business, and commerce. Now, I am being quite stereotypical here, but I do not know how else to approach this. The accepted culture of the region is of families, most are married, most have children, with most of the men working and a split with the women: some work, some stay at home with the children. In our culture, it is common to work days and sleep nights, and to work Monday through Friday. It is common for many families in our region to go to one of several churches on Sunday. Also in our culture, music, television, and movies are quite popular. And while there are plenty of restaurants and pubs selling liquor, there are few places to purchase them. So I would say our region tolerates alcohol, but it is not an extremely popular item. Being a small area, our culture does not have a large participation in sports; however, it is popular within our culture to observe sports on television and to visit sporting venues at larger nearby cities. Yet despite our small size, our culture is one that enjoys shopping and pampering, and there are many places to purchase most anything available in the city, and many day spas where people may relax.

[rampart]

Of course, I thought of more once I submitted my answer. I would add that in our culture, men were slacks and dress shirts to work, few wear suits; women were slacks or skirts. Hats are not popular among men or women, except in cold or wet weather. Men wear more drab colours in business, but less so in a casual environment. Women are more likely to wear colourful clothing whether at work or home.

[noxlumos]

I live in a small village in England, with my wife and six children, we have three older children who have left home and established themselves in London and Dublin.

In many ways we are typical people of our area in that our earnings are of upper middle class levels, we use the local libraires, swimming pools etc and have similar interest to the other villagers and support local events etc although niether my wife nor I are from the area.

We are dissimilar in our religious beliefs (I am Catholic and my wife is Jewish) whereas the majority of the local community seem to be Protestant, but this has not caused any cultural clashes either within the family or the community.I am from Belfast originally and notice that I do not particularly identify very well with the culture that I live in, it being very different to the one in which I was raised ( more affluent but not so close knit).

The culture in which I live at the moment is more reserved and conservative. There is a great deal of store placed upon posessions here ( keeping up with the Jones) as people are not struggling for money, they are for the most part reasonably financially stable.

Most people work in the "profesions" within the village or are artists, writers, self employed in some way.

It is a small somewhat niche community where bad manners, agression and rowdiness would not be well recieved.The local pub is frequented almost solely by the immediate village and drinking and smoking done in moderation.

It is a pleasant culture to live in as most people are accepted and respected for themselves.

Actually this is an amazingly hard question to answer!

[cheater123]

well u have both answered very well !!

Thanks very much for your time !!

[lethologica]

I see culture (although I've studied psychology so that may discount my answer a little) as an accepted way of life shared by people who share similar values and goals.

I find myself and my boyfriend quite atypical of the culture that surrounds us. I would be classified as a university student, however I don't live at university, I commute. I also work 2 part time jobs totalling approximately 37-8 hours a week. My boyfriend is an ex used car salesman who now buys his own vehicles to sell, whilst working the rest of the time for his dad. We 'live' between our parents houses (i.e. one night here, one night there), but always together. We've been together just over 3 and a half years, never want children and instead have a rabbit.

I find us slightly difference because I'm not your standard 20yr old student, as he's not your average 19yr old 'college drop out'. Most 19/20 year olds in 'our culture' cannot sustain a 3 year relationship, let alone an existance of such hard work!