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=WELCOME= =**TO MS LEONG'S 8TH GRADE HUMANITIES WIKI**= =**THEME 4: CULTURE**=

//"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."//
[|Jawaharlal Nehru]

//The image in the logo in the top left is the sand [|mandala] created in [|Oglethorpe University Museum of Art] (Atlanta, Georgia), by Tibetan monks from the [|Drepung Loseling Monastery]. The monks made more than a dozen of these healing mandalas across America for healing and protection after September 11//.


 * Scroll down the page to view student contributions to the meaning of culture.**

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= = =Add your vision of the meaning of //culture// to this page.= =What would it look like in a song, or a piece of art, in fashion, or in poetry? Find a quote that gives meaning to the concept or make up your own. This is a project with no end.= = = =Think about it - can any definition ever be complete?= = = Let's watch to see what happens.
 * //In my opinion, Culture is several things. It is://**
 * **//the way you act around your family//**
 * //**the way you were raised**//
 * //**the way you think**//
 * //**the things you like**//
 * //**your attitude**//
 * //**your opinions**//
 * //**what you think whenever you see something out of the ordinary or something foreign to you.**//


 * //An example of this would be these two different youtubes:

media type="youtube" key="B_ct6RiJDyQ&hl=en" height="355" width="425"The Official Music Video for Whispers in the Dark by Skillet media type="youtube" key="BQ-2J9xM6rk&hl=en" height="355" width="425"A 'Gaara Tribute' to 'Whispers in the Dark' by Skillet//**

//**Sorry that takes up so much space.**//

//**These two YouTubes show the differences that different aspects of culture insinuate. For example, the music video focuses mainly on the singer and it has a more standoffish, religious feel. The Gaara tribute is more personal and the subject of the video, Gaara, is the one it's being sung about. There are thousands more videos, pictures and stories that revolve around this song and each one is an example of culture because no one is the same and we all think of things differently.

Yours,

--Aura_Borealis-- (Mariah)**//



//__Art Created by Evan__//
The tree shows how growth and change happens all over the world and that our knowledge of one another is a great thing and it is life (the tree) that we should value above all else. Our culture is not nearly as important between the connections (branches) between others."

Evan,

 [|You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.] Evan
 * [|Indira Gandhi] (1917 - 1984) ** , //quoted by Christian Science Monitor,// //May 17, 1982 //



Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. [|Matthew Arnold] by Mac

"Why is that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" [|Ernest Gaines] By Emily

“That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.” [|Henry Ward Beecher] By Eddy

" A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. " [|Mohandas Gandhi] By Cynthia

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. [|Matthew Arnold] By Kimber

[|Thomas Carlyle] By Mariah
 * “The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape.”**

=// “Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved” //= [|- Andre Malraux] By Judy

"We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors. But, they all fit nicely into the same box." [|Unknown] By Ya Chun

“ Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. ” [|Albert Camus] By: Philip “If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.” [|Pablo Picasso] By Vinay Nagaraj

“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.” [|Hermann Hesse]

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“Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.” [|Hans Magnus Enzensberger] By Daniel

"Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties -- it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses." [|Aime Cesair] By Jae Kyun

"War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another." [|Laurence Overmire] By Dan

" It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle " [|Ashley Montagu] By Jonas

"Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves." [|Philip Gilbert Hamerton]  By Joanna

" //Culture is one thing and varnish is another.// " ~[|Ralph Waldo Emerson] By Kim

"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect." [|- Friedrich Nietzsche] By Bing



"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." [|Mahatma Gandhi]

by Micky

" Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. " [|John Abbott]

by Chris

" You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. " [|Peter Abrahams]

by Richard

"Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life." [|Octavio Paz]

by Jonathan

“[|**Culture** is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.]” [|Thomas Carlyle]

by Elena

“[|No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.]” [|Thomas Jefferson quotes]

By Amanda

“[|Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."] [|-Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era.)]

By Emily

[|"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."] [|Mohandas Gandhi]

By Julia

"As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit." [|Seneca]

By Amelie

"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."
 * [|Mahatma Gandhi]**

By Alvin

“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.” [|Hermann Hesse]

By Dexter

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own." [|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

By Anna

" We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." [|Jimmy Carter]

By Kristian

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read a page." [|Unknown]

By DongHyun

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."  [|**Mohandas Gandhi**]

By Theresia

''The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. -Charles Darwin

By Zach http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/37958.html

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved [|--Andre Malraux quotes] By Alexi

"A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage." [|–Yo Yo Ma, White House Conference on Culture and Diplomacy] By Samuel

“[|As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other **culture** should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own]” Margaret Mead By Rebecca

“ Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. ” [|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes] By Garrett

"Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves." - [|Philip Gilbert Hamerton] By Andrew Wang

Culture is the whole complex of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features that characterizes a society or a group. It includes creative expressions, community practices and material or built forms. [|—from Our Creative Diversity: The UN World Commisssion on Culture and Development Repor] By Justin =          = ===      " [|Culture] [| of the mind must be subservient to the heart] ." === =            [|Mahatma Gandhi]   = By Rachel

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it solely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth all one's lifetime." [|Mark Twain] By Taylor

"Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides." - [|John Burroughs], [|page link] By Dennis

“[|Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the **culture**.]” [|Allen Ginsberg quotes] By Gabe

[|“People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.”] [|Daisaku Ikeda quotes] By Aurelien

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. [|Malcolm Bradbury]

By: Fatiah

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.” [|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote] By Lulu

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." [|Marcus Garvey] - By Jiayi

[|"Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.] (- Walter Lippmann)

By Bethany :]

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people." -[|Mohandas Gandhi]- by Ji Young (: Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another. //[|Geert Hofstede]//

by Caren

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