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Essay provides a description of the word "culture" and describes why it is important to learn about various cultures other than your own.

The word "culture" could be defined in two ways. One way to define culture is simply describe it as the trends passed onto another generation. An online dictionary provides that culture is the "totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human works and thoughts." Culture is also defined as the gifts invented by our ancestors, as culture is often referred to as the "patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, community, or population."

The study of the culture is vital and very influential to the people of today as it reflects directly upon the history and way of our life. Studying our culture and learning about the achievements accomplished by the ancestors plays critical role in passing the trends that we inherited to the.....

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