What Is Culture Beauty

Colorful flight of Human Expressions

What is culture?

What can be a very precise definition of culture?

Culture is there everywhere all around us as a continuity of underline form of everything in life.

In fact it is the habit pattern of our unconscious mind that we are not aware of!

It is something like a continuity working in the background of each and every action that we make and thought pattern we go through.

So I see the definition of culture as a latent thread of consistency in everything we do to act or express ourselves be it our way of dressing, liking for food, language, architecture or the norms of behavior such as law and morality or anything.

That latent sense drives the whole civilization in every aspect of life be it its scientists or artists equally, this is called cultural sense.

And this sense is passed on from one generation to the next.

This is the wisdom and knowledge got by the predeceasing generation of humanity and passed on to the successor generation.

So it may affect our present and future too!

Is it okay!

Counting only the virtues of culture can be called it just adding glamor to history since it guides our present on the basis of quality of life discovered in past by our ancestors!

Isn’t it?

So what is culture?

Good or bad!

What is it?

Beautiful or ugly!

Of course! culture has beauty but only the history part bereft of this glamor has it.

Adding glamor to past turns it into an authority and as we start taking it as an authority it takes away the creativity and curiosity to question the things the way they are in life making life dull and monotonous.

It should be deemed as knowledge body nothing more than that and nothing less than anything as knowledge is the key to human life!

Beauty of culture is not the way beauty is perceived in those cultural environment but is the beauty of that whole cultural thing as an entity and the way it evolved.

Human brain expresses itself by actions of body and thoughts of mind.

And it can do so in thousands of different ways.

So beauty is not only in the depth of understanding 'what is culture' but also in the breadth of it, as in how many variants is it there in our world and how it evolved.

In a given climatic conditions and social circumstances that a group of humanity lives under, it chooses the most convenient and beautiful way that it can - using its intelligence to express itself.

Beauty lies here, in this flight of chosen way to act or express itself by human brain which becomes apparent to us in the form of languages, dances, architecture, fashion etc.

The existing and extinct-cultures offer us these different flights of human intellect.

This is quality of life discovered in past by our ancestors!

And inherited by us!

Here we will see and enjoy the beauty of each of these flights of human expression.

To see that we need to break free from the frame of mind we are trend and brought up in our individual cultural bias or environments.

They all are unique in their own way from very sophisticated to raw one.

For that matter tribes have their own way; tribal-culture, even if a naïve one has its beauty in its simple and raw form.

So things deemed as cultured can be contradictory in two cultures!

Then who determines what is culture and what is not in a particular culture?

The collective subjectivity of people in a society determines the cultural standards for that social body.

In ancient-cultures these norms were rigid leaving no room for individual to follow her/his own perspective.

Modern world-culture is more democratic in that sense.

So a journey through cultural beauty is not only beautiful but also gives us a chance to understand how humanity lived and enjoyed on this planet before we appeared here!

What is culture change and why does it take place even if the basic nature of culture is dogmatic and rigid?

Men has always strived to live life in a way that could reap him/her the joy, understanding and satisfaction of living the most.

So cultural metamorphism keeps taking place – that is the most beautiful aspect of it- as it brings about new things to the life that keeps it kicking.

In that sense it is not rigid as religions are.

Inter cultural interactions always breed something beautiful.

Like sweet language Urdu was born by the interaction between Persian-culture and Hindu-culture and great music like Jazz took birth by the interaction between Hispanic-culture and American-culture.

So we need understanding what the culture really is that we live in and getting rid of its rigid nature.

That will really make us open and receptive.

Only then can we learn valuable things from other cultures and make the experience of life rich. Though at times it may give a culture-shock in first place!

As people from conservative-culture get this shock when they are exposed to any open one.

Cultural codes include manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behavior such as law and morality, and systems of belief as well as the law and gastronomy.

Generally one culture is distinguished from others by nations or regions where it is practiced in, like we have Chinese-culture, Japanese-culture, Italian-culture, Mexican-culture, French-culture, German-culture, native American-culture and so on…

Or they are based on religions like Jewish-culture, Muslim-culture and Hindu-culture.

Globalization has brought them close and made a conducive environment for a new World-culture.

They are there in a bit off beat way too like- culture-club, culture-beat, candela-culture, hip hop-culture, hippie-culture, Ibo-culture, organizational-culture, pop-culture, Navajo-culture, el Salvador-culture, remix-culture, bad-culture etc

So relish this recipe so rich in cultural diversity served in this plate of world-culture and have the joy of life in all possible ways humanity has tasted till date.

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