So what is culture? Is it a monument such as the Eiffel Tower? Is it the language of a civilisation? Is culture the art and literature of a time period, or the taboos and code of manners? It is all of it, and yet none of it. All of these aspects are a result of culture – an expression and a measure of culture. They aren’t culture. This is because culture can be expressed at the smallest scale not in terms of society but in terms of the fundamental element of society – the individual.
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