What Is Culture? Slide 3 of 8

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Culture is an integrated system of learned behavior patterns that are characteristic of members of any given society. Culture refers to the total way of life of people. It includes everything that a group of people thinks, does, says, believes, and makes: its customs, language, material artifacts and shared systems of attitudes, feelings, and ideas. To summarize: see screen Remember: A person can be a combination of cultures and may change according to the environment he/she is in.

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