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Running Head: CULTURE, LANDSCAPE AND HUMANITY
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CULTURE, LANDSCAPE AND HUMANITY
Culture, Landscape and Humanity
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Culture, Landscape and Humanity
Culture Defined
Human beings have different opinions about culture and its presence in their systems of life. The term could be used to refer to a collection of perceptions, ideologies and principles about ways of life engraved within different groups of people. Individuals incorporate diverse cultural systems of life depending on their geographical locations. Defining culture includes adherence to beliefs, morals and principles outlined by different individuals in different regions. Norms and other ethical issues can also be used define culture and its practise (“Culture,” n.d).
Communication and identification make up some of the basic components in defining culture. Human beings are often identified by their behaviour and belief. The main objective for the establishment of culture was to enhance and maintain a sustainable moral group of individuals. Different people are therefore able to identify themselves with certain beliefs and ideologies. Use of communication in culture has improved mutual coexistence among members in a given society. This form of interrelationship helps in creating a sense of identification and belonging among individuals (“Culture,” n.d).
The movie “Images on a Global Screen” illustrates that the presence of a cultural framework and guidelines help in defining the existence of different types of human personalities. Human beings acquire different behaviours depending on their background beliefs. It is obvious that different individuals would act, think and relate differently depending on their cultural environment (“Culture,” n.d). Social relativism makes the basic component in human formation. Different individuals often consume different information into their mind set up as they grow within different cultures. This has thus led to integration among human behaviours. Through culture, human perceptions are often conditioned to suit requirements of a given society. It shows how culture can be integrated and differentiated among the lives of different individuals. The overall descriptions of certain principles and phenomena rely on distinctive beliefs and perceptions that constitute a whole system as portrayed in the movie.
The Cultural Landscape
Definition
Cultural landscape refers to a diversified environmental and physical feature engineered by human beings. Cultural landscape derives its meaning from two words namely culture and landscape. Culture represents the natural aspect of these features while landscape stands for the artificial work done by human beings. According to Halonen, cultural landscape often show the intellectual capabilities in human beings depicted in the physical environment as heritage. Use of both culture and nature in environment shows clearly the existence of sound intellectual abilities among...