Chpt. 1 - Culture and Ethnography

Culture is a word we hear almost every day, especially in a school as diverse as ours it ha become somewhat of a buzzword. It's a thing that seems to have different connotations, a bad thing - as in modern American culture is rotting my naive teenage brain, and a good thing - as in what makes us all different and unique, multiculturalism. So I felt that I had a good grasp on its definition. Bit this book defines culture as knowledge, knowledge that is learned and shared. I find this incredibly interesting. Culture is what a group of people know, what they hold common in their minds. It is nothing simply as tangible ad clothing or food, these are things generated by culture, not vice-versa as I had always thought.