ARBUS 100 Chapter 2: UNIT 2 notes
20 Nov 2016
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The knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, religion, symbols, and possessions acquired by a group of people who have lived in the same region or country for generation. Culture is transmitted from one generation to the next through education and by example. When people live in a new region they either assimilate (take the regional culture for themselves) area or form their own subculture. A cultural group within a larger or predominant culture, distinguished from it by factors such as class, ethnic background, and religion, and unified by shared beliefs and interests (ex. Maintain parts of their own culture, including food, language, and religion. In canada many immigrant communities exist that maintain their own culture this multiculturalism is known as the canadian mosaic. A culture that has values or lifestyles that is in opposition to those of the current accepted culture. Members of a counterculture openly reject the established cultural values that surround them.
