The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning "to cultivate", generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Different definitions of "culture" reflect different theoretical bases for understanding, or criteria for evaluating, human activity. Anthropologists most commonly use the term "culture" to refer to the universal human capacity to classify, codify and communicate their experiences symbolically. This capacity is long been taken as a defining feature of the genus Homo. However, primatologists such as Jane Goodall have identified aspects of culture among our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.Goodall, J. 1986. The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior.

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@BxtchimjusDOPE YES ! It's a mash-up of all kinds of cultures !
fashionaddikt (Karel Blackman) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:37:52 -0000
@BxtchimjusDOPE YES ! It's a mash-up of all kinds of cultures !
#factsaboutme I wish I lived abroad. I would love to fully immerse myself in new cultures and surroundings.
fashionaddikt (Karel Blackman) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:29:56 -0000
#factsaboutme I wish I lived abroad. I would love to fully immerse myself in new cultures and surroundings.
@loveandoliveoil or what if u look at what dif cultures traditonally cook 4 their holiday & make 1 thing (app/main/side/dessert) from each.
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