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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I-Pod therefore I am http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/it-remains-nameless-but-it-was-the-idecade-20091228-lh7g.html
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@vikramchandra The gadget of the decade is the mobilephone. It has touched more people, and across every society and culture, than any other
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@vikramchandra The gadget of the decade is the mobilephone. It has touched more people, and across every society and culture, than any other
@jemelehill Single Black women are a product of culture, society and personal choice (as you stated). We don't HAVE to get married any more
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@jemelehill Single Black women are a product of culture, society and personal choice (as you stated). We don't HAVE to get married any more
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