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Culture existed before people existed? Care to explain this retarded comment? |
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Hmm. perhaps not clear - but not moronic.
What we understand to be culture existed before people existed. |
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People are not the only things with culture.
Jane Goodall studies culture. |
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Culture? So it's "culture" when one chimpanzee sticks his finger up another's rectum, sniffs it, and then puts it in his mouth? The term "culture" implies abstract thought and learned behavior, not raw instinct. Every instance of tool use by the great apes has been proven to be the result of human interference. Even a rat can learn to imitate certain human actions. That hardly qualifies as culture. |
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The term "culture" implies abstract thought and learned behavior, not raw instinct.
Culture also implies how and why animals and people mate, obtain their food, fight, sleep ....all kinds of things. That is part of culture too. Not ONLY abstract thought. If studying mating and dating rituals tell us anything...a lot of human culture is based on raw instinct. |
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By your logic, then even single celled organisms like amoeba and viruses have a culture. Sorry, but I'm not buying it.
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that is in entirely different context. bacterial culture is merely a colony of bacteria cells. it's like you saying human tissue is related to the tissue you use to blow your nose.
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Meaning that certain races lack the intelligence to overcome instinctual behavior? |
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So, you believe in class? You believe in culture? Well, I'm sorry, but I am here with my leftist logic, and I'm going to shatter those illusions!
Divisions of classes and their recognition differ from culture to culture. Divisions of classes are fuzzy. Divisions of classes have been used to oppress segments of a population. Class must be a cultural construct, and therefore does not exist. Divisions of cultures and their recognition differ from culture to culture. Divisions of cultures are fuzzy. Divisions of cultures have been used for cultures to oppress other cultures. Culture must be a cultural construct, and therefore does not exist. OOPS! |
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Fade is that you? You seem a little bit too bright to oversimplify culture to a "racial construct".
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Aslong as it is black male/white, asian, hispanic female I have no problem with race mixing.
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"Culture must be a cultural construct, and therefore does not exist. OOPS!"
Now you are on to something. Anthropologists have been discussing the idea of cultural relativism. I personally think that this means that each individual person has its own culture - a way of cultivating itself and comes from varied systems of cultivation. http://www.panam.edu/faculty/mglazer...relativism.htm For instance... "Just take a look at the latter; if differences exist from culture to culture in mating in obtaining food, fighting, sleeping etc., and these are instinctive(i.e. basic biological survival mechanisms) as you suggest, then the differences are biological." Not just biological - biological combined with environmental and sexual and political, etc. influences. The reaction that people have to each other based on colour, and actions that we pursue based on colour are learned. They are not biological - they are chosen. For instance - children learn about who they identify as being outside of their race group between the ages of two and six. It is a construct designed to facilitate what some perceive to be success/order/etc. In my opinion, I can not say that the culture of a chimpanzee is primitive. Perhaps the culture of a chimpanzee is sufficient and suited to the goals and 'ideals' of a chimpanzee. In my opinion the concept of race is an economic and political device that is used to create an artificial social order. I do not think it serves a purpose other than to maintain that artificial order. I also think that people who live outside the social expectations of race have a greater potential to self-actualize. But that's another story... |
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