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Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate") is a term that has different meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions. However, the word "culture" is most commonly used in three basic senses:
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Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture
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An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning
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The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group
, as in agriculture or horticulture. In the nineteenth century, it came to refer first to the betterment or refinement of the individual, especially through education and then to the fulfillment of national aspirations or ideals. When the concept first emerged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, it connoted a process of cultivation or improvementIn the mid-nineteenth century, some scientists used the term "culture" to refer to a universal human capacity.
In the twentieth century, "culture" emerged as a concept central to anthropology, encompassing all human phenomena that are not purely results of human genetics. Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings: (1) the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and (2) the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively. Following World War II, the term became important, albeit with different meanings, in other disciplines such as sociology, cultural studies, organizational psychology and management studies. Therefore, you'll find a bit of culture in Choice America,..but you already knew that. So enjoy and thank you for visiting Choice America, we appreciate you! All about choice. All about you.
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Why do political and economic leaders deny Peak Oil and Climate Change? | |
Since theres nothing that can be done about climate change, because theres no scalable alternative to fossil fuels, Ive always wondered why politicians and other leaders, who clearly know better, feel compelled to deny it. I think its for exactly the same reasons you dont hear them talking about preparing for Peak Oil.
1) our leaders have known since the last energy crisis that theres no comparable alternative energy ready to replace fossil fuels. | | 2/20/2012 7:31:12 AM |
Big-Oil Lundberg v Eco-Lundbergs: Court denies time extension request in wrongful death case | |
The critical stage of the case brought against Trilby Lundberg of Lundberg Survey, and 9 other defendants regarding Mesa Lundberg's Wrongful Death, is known as "demurrers." The defendants have motioned for the court to strike the Causes of Action and dismiss the case. Plaintiffs responded with Opposition papers to demurrers and motions to strike.
The current demurrers and motions to strike read like technical denials of the accusations and allegations, while the Plaintiffs -- being in propria persona (without lawyers) respond in everyday English and press their claim. | | 2/18/2012 6:24:27 AM |
Universal Mind Meditation versus Cars | | THREE NEW POEMS FOR OUR FASCINATING, TROUBLED, BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Universal Mind Meditation
Feel the whole infinite Universe, see the galaxies. See our Milky Way Galaxy and our star the Sun. See the planets, then see Earth. Feel that love for our beautiful blue home planet. As the Universal, feel the desire to protect and nuture this special miracle. | | 2/18/2012 2:03:19 AM |
Of Uncertain Futures: As We Are Not Yet One | | As the modern age accelerates its downward spiral toward an uncertain outcome, we are divided in our outlooks and fears. Yet, if we examine them, and if enough of us have a dialogue resulting in action, we might discover our apparent weaknesses in such a way to make us stronger.
More "haves" than ever sense an uncertain future, mainly that of becoming have-nots. But when haves admit that deeper threats are getting close to engulfing humanity -- ecological deterioration, famine over rising energy prices and water shortage -- the future appears downright doubtful. | | 2/11/2012 9:19:06 AM |
When your distractions are the main event: fighting Big Oil on all levels | | My work at Culture Change and Sail Transport Network is somewhat neglected lately due to having to deal with our Wrongful Death lawsuit. Petroleum and culture change issues are, however, paramount in the case. Thanks for understanding.
Please help get the word out on this campaign to fight Big Oil money and the scourge of elder abuse and fraud. After you read the following, you might connect clearly on this issue. From the latest Case Management Statement, filed in Santa Barbara Superior Court today, case # 1371627, the summary:
"'Mesa Lundberg was murdered or it was manslaughter,' said the Coroner's chief investigator for L.A. County. | | 2/8/2012 1:17:23 PM |
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Advances Against Big-Oil Money Controlled by Trilby Lundberg, Lundberg Survey | | Plaintiffs Jan and Darius Lundberg, whose mother was abused, dispossessed and killed, are proceeding with their case against 10 defendants in the Santa Barbara, California region. On January 3rd an Amended Complaint was filed, so defendants -- including the Plaintiffs' actual sister Trilby Lundberg -- are whining and scrambling to justify with paper pleadings their long string of acts that enriched them.
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Culture Change is unique / Update on Sail Transport Network | | In the interests of keeping the show on the road and the doors open, we need you as a supportive reader to help Culture Change cover basic costs in February. Here's why:
At Culture Change we aren't giving our readers and supporters a part-time, share-our-feelings service. No, we are full-time activists living a low-consumptive, engaged lifestyle. Cutting-edge projects have been our hallmark: Pedal Power Produce, banning plastic bags, depaving, initiating or participating in protests, the Sail Transport Network (STN), multi-media materials and events, arts, networking nonstop, and more -- | | 1/25/2012 1:43:46 PM |
Direct Fossil Fuel Subsidies Worldwide: Half a Trillion Dollars Annually - commentary and findings | | Here are disturbing numbers from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, by Lester R. Brown, and its excerpt "Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate" released by Earth Policy Institute on Jan. 19, 2012. First, Culture Change provides critical comment:
It is a public service that Worldwatch Institute founder Lester Brown, now with his Earth Policy Institute, has helped expose the huge, ongoing financial subsidies to fossil fuels industries. Governments' and corporations' persisting with this policy -- legal corruption of the worst order at a time of out-of-control climate change -- is nothing short of insane or criminal.
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The Imperative of Revolutionary Nonviolence | | [Essay originally published as a chapter in World Without Violence,
edited by Arun Gandhi (India: Wiley Eastern Limited/New Age International Limited, 1994)]
Nonviolence is a way of life, an external manifestation of an internal peace. Nonviolence is mindfulness and consciousness of the sacred, of the interconnectedness of ourselves with everything and every being. It is an attitude, an awareness, an understanding, a manner of expression and interaction operating from a deep internal integration that honors this sacred interconnectedness. | | 1/19/2012 5:50:43 AM |
Almost Elderly Ocuppier's Vagabond Delight | | I've been chasing the Occupy movement around the country, starting in Santa Cruz, then going to Jackson, Michigan, my hometown. Next stop was Detroit.
I gambled on the weather and lost. They predicted rain today, but it didn't happen, so I rolled out my bedroll in Detroit, way out Woodward Ave. near Wayne State University and in the bushes next to a Unitarian Church between a couple of buttresses (not the flying kind) that blocked most of the chilly wind. | | 1/13/2012 4:08:21 PM |
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RELIGION:
CHARACTERS WELCOME
religion (rɪˈlɪdʒən)
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belief in, worship of, or obedience to a supernatural power or powers considered to be divine or to have control of human destiny |
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any formal or institutionalized expression of such belief: the Christian religion |
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the attitude and feeling of one who believes in a transcendent controlling power or powers |
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chiefly RC Church the way of life determined by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience entered upon by monks, friars, and nuns: to enter religion |
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something of overwhelming importance to a person: football is his religion |
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a. the practice of sacred ritual observances |
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b. sacred rites and ceremonies |
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