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Culture

Culture is defined as an on-going pattern of life, characterizing a society at a given point in history; the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, behaviors, artifacts, and traditions which characterize a group of people or shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.

Culture, moreover is defined as socially constructed and socially transmitted confederation of beliefs, values, goals, norms, traditions, and institutions.

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