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Cultural theory


Cultural Theory:

  • An "automatic" way of defining the imaginary lack of boundaries separating all of mankind’s' different forms of expression (or ways of life).

Automatic, because defining a lack of boundaries is already setting one down, a naive and amateurish approach to definition... the differences between "cultures" truly do exist, depending on a psychological approach to the matter (surrounding influences) or on a social level (poverty...)

  • Affirming that a "culture", a way of life enacted by a certain category of human beings, has the same basic roots as another "culture".

Although the use of the word "culture" already incites our limited knowledge of another way of life. The truest way of defining a lifestyle or a form of expression is a certain distance from it, without prejudice or past reference, and applying a comparison (this said, not a qualitative one) to it.

  • The ensemble of collected knowledge of all of mankind’s' past creations, and their categorization.
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