Culture refers to the social heritage of a people --- the learned 　　patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize a

　　population or society, include the expression of these pattems in ___1____

　　material things. Culture is compose of nonmaterial culture --- ____2____

　　abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs and institutional

　　arrangements - and material culture - physical object like ____3____

　　cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. In sum, culture reflects

　　both the ideas we share or everything we make. In ordinary ____4____

　　speech, a person of culture is the individual can speak another ____5____

　　language - the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, music, ____6____

　　literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to be

　　human is to be cultured, because of culture is the common world ___7____

　　of experience we share with other members of our group.

　　Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a kind ____8____

　　of map for relating to others. Consider how you fred your way

　　about social life. How do you know how to act in a classroom,

　　or a department store, or toward a person who smiles or laugh ____9____

　　at you? Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, ____10____

　　ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations.

　　Therefore, if we know a person's culture, we can understand

　　and even predict a good deal of his behavior.

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