Culture

Culture is a term that has several meanings, for example in 1952 Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn complied a list of 164 different meanings. But they are 2 basic meanings
1. Excellence of taste in the arts and humanities, also known as high culture
2. An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning.
3. The set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterizes an institution organization or group.
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: the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and 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 cultural studies, organizational psychology and management studies.
Every culture has its own way to, celebrate, belief, act, etc. In case of the celebration in every culture they celebrate different things or gods, they can do rituals, dance or food, etc. Also every culture expresses their self through art.
In school part of what they teach us is to know and learn about the diversity of cultures on the world, to respect them and to know why every culture is different. Through the art of the different cultures we can know how they behave, what they belief in, rituals, social organization etc.
The benefits to know and learn about different cultures is that you can adopt some of them, or even if you don’t like other cultures you can see the differences between their cultures and yours and understand better your culture.