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To: SpeakingUp

What is the working definition of Culture here?

Depends, doesn't it?

If you are a person living within an extant culture, it is the aquarium in which you swim, the commonly held philosophy, viewpoint and/or belief system which influences all of your perceptions.

If you want the definition of culture from the historical viewpoint, culture is that which remains once all of them who lived it, are gone.


18 posted on 02/17/2005 6:10:54 PM PST by ItCanHappenToYou
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To: ItCanHappenToYou
As a grammar school student in the 50's I learned that culture was a system of progress in a community. That was a good working definition for a 10 or 12 year old. I also like to think o culture as The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. which is from dictionary.com

If I were to evaluate a new hire in terms of culture, I would want to know how well that person was adapting to the culture in their potential work environment.

33 posted on 02/17/2005 7:28:38 PM PST by SpeakingUp
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