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How a Tree is an Essential Metaphor of Culture for Teenagers to Contemplate
How is technology changing the way we make sense of our place, of our culture and of understanding ourselves?
…Just as we’re losing diversity of plant and animal species due to the environmental crisis, so too are we losing the diversity and range of our minds due to changes in our cognitive environment. Preface to The Stars in Our Pockets by Howard Alexrod
Culture is everywhere, that is the first fact. Human beings are bound by culture which can be described as the ordinary processes by which a given society observes, trains, tests and finds meanings to its true purposes.
Every culture is in active development through contact, experience, education, discovery and active debate or communication.
Culture can also be segmented for closer interpretation. It creates SOCIAL MORES which are the codes of behavior that are important to establish manners, customs and habits and add moral significance. SOCIAL NORMS or conventions are created by like-minded people to participate in groups.
Culture can create MEMES which are ideas, symbols, behaviors, styles or even phenomena that can spread from person to person becoming self-redirecting and even mutating through selective pressures.
