Q. No 17. Write a paragraph about a
different culture. introduce the
reader to this culture through your
supporting sentences.
Answers
Answer:
Indian culture is diverse and comprises various customs, ideas, social attributes, and beliefs. India contains different cultures and communities that differ prominently in their traditions, food habits, languages, and traditions.
Indian culture is an amalgamation of different traditions and customs and how different communities present and organize themselves in terms of morality and etiquette
Explanation:
Culture is the identity of a group of people living in specific place; they have their own sketch of life what the culture says they follow that. We have seen that a lot of people do some specific thing they first thought about their culture, what my culture says on this occasion. Especially on the occasion of wedding, and some other celebrating days they follow strictly their culture. Those who do not follow their culture or do some changes in that, they haven’t give any values to them because they are not following their religion.
Different people define culture in different ways, for example “Culture: learned and shared human patterns or models for living; day- to-day living patterns, these patterns and models pervade all aspects of human social interaction. Culture is mankind’s primary adaptive mechanism”1. Another author says that “Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another.”2. from these definitions it is clear that both explains the same idea but in different words, says that culture is first learned after learning it is then shared so it’s a common fact that the younger first learn the culture from their elders and when these young become elders they transfer it to the next generation. But the culture learned it includes all the aspects of human interaction and thus it become the mankind’s adoptive mechanism. In the second definition the author says that the culture is the programming of mind so it includes everything related with the mind programming and because of these different minds programming different group of people distinguish from each others.
Characteristics:
Culture has its own characteristics; we will discuss some of its characteristics here.
Learnt
Shared
Social
Continuous
Adaptive
Varies
Learnt:
Adaptive:
Culture is always adaptive, even changes occur in culture but is very slow process and generally it is adaptive to all the people associated with that culture. when their occur some changes in the culture then at the same time people become use to with it and thus they feel nothing about their culture even people of other cultures will says anything about that culture but the people of that culture they are adapt with it. One author says about it that “The biological modifications and adjustments are always flexible to adapt even in the harsh conditions of the environment”7.it means that the changes occur in the culture is flexible, easy for everyone to follow.
Varies:
Culture always varies. All the elements of culture like dressing, ways of eating, speaking etc varies from society to society. In every culture there always changes occur in some interval of time, almost the changes speed is very slow but we never say that culture is not variable.
Types of culture:
There are several types of culture:
Material culture
Dressing
Food
Buildings
Non-material culture
Language
Family
Religion
Education