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what is culture by nehru essay

Answer 1

From latin word “cultura” which means care or “cultus” which means civilization

Based on the long period of dependency of the human person;He has to take care of people around him => the care and training provided to the individual accounts for the differences in culture.

Culture according to Edward Taylor…“Culture… refers to that complex whole which knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, low, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member a society”.

Culture represents the way they live; the interrelated network of norms and roles.

Culture is behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols…including embodiment in artifacts… the essential core of culture is the traditional ideas and their attached values.

The components of Culture

“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit”.

This quote was said by Jawaharlal Nehru in his Speech “The spirit of science” at the opening ceremony of the Fuel Research Institute,

April 22, 1950.

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Answer 2

Answer:

In Nehru's view, culture was more or less thus worldly, historical, and to some extent a synthesis of secular and temporal, social and economic elements; it was not spiritual but material.

Explanation:

• He did not live in a dogmatic, obsessive, constrictive, prophetic, illogical, divine, or heavenly culture.
• It promoted empathy, altruism, and humanism and was more supportive of liberty, equality, fraternity, and human rights.
• Nehru would hardly agree with the idea that culture is an organic whole infused with certain ancient institutions.
• Nehru understood the vicissitudes of India's history from the era of the ancient civilization to the present, but he could never comprehend the idea of structural cultural continuity in India.
• He was not the type of person to accept divine revelation or manifestations of Indian culture.
• Naturalist Nehru upholds evidence from the physical, geological, zoological, and anthropological sciences but does not perceive any spiritual or cosmic processes.

Hence,  there are no providential or sentimental ties to any one culture in Nehru's histology.

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