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Essay attempts to provide a definition of the word "culture."

"Culture", as a word, belongs to group of words that do not have just one definition and meaning. Many researchers have tried to define culture and each one of them what simply did was just an addition of something more to the previous definition. None of these definitions best describes what culture really is, because as it has been said "culture is not one of life's luxuries: it's life itself" (Definition of"). By this, one can understand that, since life is implemented with culture as well, culture covers all aspects a human might come upon during his life, from language, politics, economic systems, to traditions, behavior, religion, even up to fashion and food. As Henslin once stated, "culture becomes the lance through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us (Henslin, 275). Culture.....

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