Title “What is culture and what are your expectations from a ‘cultual' class"

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• Introduction
• Body

• How culture regulates what is expected in a society
• The structure of shared behaviors, values, artifacts, and beliefs making up a community's way of living as a culture
• The relation between culture and education
• The importance of cultural heritage

• Conclusion

Culture and Cultural Class

Culture is the distinctive attribute of a group of individuals. It is made up of several components, some clearer than others. Culture determines people's way of life, from how they carry out their daily activities, how they think, what people consume, and what they believe in. Culture is the language people speak, clothes they wear, the food they consume (Verma, 2021). It is people's beliefs, customs, and values. It is part and parcel of human beings' philosophy, religious beliefs, mythology, and superstitions. 

Culture regulates what is unacceptable and acceptable in any society. Social norms are generated out of culture. It is exhibited via dance, writings, art, technologies, architecture, and music. Holidays like Christmas and Halloween are a part of the vast culture. And inside that society, there are more minor customs with their norms and behaviors (Oude Groeniger et al., 2020). The United States is a melting point of heritages, making it one of the lively places to reside in the world. 

Culture is also the typical denominator that makes the acts of the people understandable to a particular cluster. That is, the structure of shared behaviors, values, artifacts, and beliefs making up a community's way of living. Culture is differentiated as either non-material or material form. Culture categorized as the material form is a word connected to the physical things’ members of the community share, use, and make. They comprise computers, minerals, and faucets. The non-material culture is the unseen or abstract creations done by the community and constructed towards the interactive influence of the society. Its elements comprise schools, social institutions, and families.

The majority of educators in America are middle-class, white, monolingual-English speakers. Progressively, the same profile does not apply to the students (Schwartz, 2020). Learners have a hard time embracing various cultures and by engaging with their educators they can differentiate among themselves through reflecting on their differences (Stockwell, 2018). Most educators try to mitigate the cultural differences by emphasizing the importance of culture by promoting the virtue of treating people equally in a way they would all want to be treated. Regardless of the attempts to bring people together, I learned how culture plays a significant role in people’s lives in my culture class.

Students need to be taught about cultural heritage since, via a correct understanding, students will appreciate and connect with cultural heritage and still apply it to their daily lives (Oude Groeniger et al., 2020). Appreciation is an important section of the artistic class. When scholars fulfill learning, presumptions are set to experience cultural heritage rather than comprehend the idea and the term. I believe a significant appreciation can start to root in the scholar's mind, which I expect from my cultural class. 

Conclusion

In conclusion, culture influences how people interact in a particular society or community. Culture is the soul and heart of a group, society, or organization. It presents what a specific set of individuals holds as ideal, thinks, believes, and feels. It communicates what individuals perceive as bad and good, wrong and right (Schwartz, 2020). Different cultures have come into existence in every part of history, shaped by philosophy, politics, technology, religion, and other elements that affect perspectives and people.