Main Components of Culture

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1.1.1 Culture Conflict Cultural conflict is a type of conflict that occurs when different cultural values and beliefs clash. It has been used to explain violence and crime. Furthermore Cultural conflicts are difficult to resolve as parties to the conflict have different beliefs. Cultural conflicts intensify when those differences become reflected in politics, particularly on a macro level. An example of cultural conflict is the debate over abortion. Ethnic cleansing is another extreme example of cultural conflict. Wars can also be a result of a cultural conflict; for example the differing views on slavery were one of the reasons for the American civil war. Another fine example of cultural conflict was the recent suicidal of a monk by setting himself on fire in a public place in Sri Lanka. It was a fatal protest and propaganda against the killing of animals in meat shops. This was clearly due to the cultural deviation within a small geographical area. 1.1.2 Cultural Diffusion In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as first conceptualized by Alfred L. Kroeber in his influential 1940 paper Stimulus Diffusion, or trans-cultural diffusion in later reformulations, is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages etc.—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another. It is distinct from the diffusion of innovations within a single culture. Generally, cultural diffusion is the process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group or society to society. For example fast food restaurants developed in the United States have taken over more sectors of the world. 1.1.3 Summery Culture is defined as the system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another, and
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