THE POWER OF CULTURE TO CREATE A BETTER FUTURE
Culture is a word, etymologically, driven from the Latin language from the word ‘cultura’ meaning to cultivate. This connotes growing of personality. This entails forming the seed of an individual’s character and life into societal structure. By cultivation, one is schooled in the beliefs and practical attitudes of a particular group of people who own the culture. However, the word culture is most commonly used in three basic senses: excellence of taste in fine arts and humanities; an integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behaviour that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning; shared attitudes, values, ...view middle of the document...
This need justifies the place of culture, the nature of culture and the cultural functionality in the universe.
Having carefully observed and understood what culture entails, we can see that culture has the ability to create a better future for all humanity. A careful view on the concept of culture shows that culture is all about the human life and the background of human action. One, for instance, who tries to know a group of people that one has never encountered, first of all goes in search of people’s cultural rudiments. When these cultural rudiments are got, the individual gets to understand them, at least, to a great extent. As such, the human culture demonstrates the problem which a people have, the way the people react to things, the people’s belief system and the people’s understanding of existence. Man faces his challenging world through his culture. One can decipher that culture lends man a background for analyzing his world and conquering it. The human thought, speech and innovation; man’s moral principles and sense of authority depends on what one is able to make out of one’s culture. Culture underlies the thought and rationality of a people. Hence ‘no one speaks from nowhere’. It is based on this cultural mechanism, which advances human development that the...
