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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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@MyTrainerBob Bob, what do you, personally, eat on Thanksgiving? Culture and society say EAT! It's hard not to.
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@MyTrainerBob Bob, what do you, personally, eat on Thanksgiving? Culture and society say EAT! It's hard not to.
@themanwhofell thats a good point, what will I thank them for...The Big Mac and a society-decaying celeb culture...THANKS
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