What is Culture?
culture is defined as the ...
What is Culture?
culture is defined as the shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs, and affective understanding that are learned through a process of socialization. These shared patterns identify the members of a culture group while also distinguishing those of another group (http://www.carla.umn.edu/culture/definitions.html)
"Culture: learned and shared human patterns or models for living; day- to-day living patterns. these patterns and models pervade all aspects of human social interaction. Culture is mankind's primary adaptive mechanism" (p. 367). (Damen, L. (1987). Culture Learning: The Fifth Dimension on the Language Classroom. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. )
Which cultures do you belong?
I belong to Pakistan, and in Pakistan I live in Haripur Disrict which is in N.W.F.P province. Haripur is near Islamabad the capital of Pakistan. My mother language is “HINDKO”.
Our Haripur is hilly plain area, Haripur was founded as a military cantonment by the Sikh general Hari Singh Nalwa around the year 1821.
Pakistan is Islamic state and the language of Pakistan is Urdu. Urdu is same approximately same to Hindi language (INDIA) but Hindi is different in written.
Being a Muslim we pray 5 times daily . Friday is holy day for Muslims so at the time of prayer all offices and shops are closed.
Durring the month of Ramdan (Islamic calander month 29, 30 days long) from morning (before sun rize) to evening (when sun down) we are in Roza ( no eating, drinking, etc). We celebrate two Eid´s one is at the end of Ramdan and other is after 2 months. We meet with family members, relatives, friends on these days and enjoying parties with friends and families.
Being a Muslims we have strong ties to the culture with Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and other Muslim countries.
There is many subcultures in Pakistan, like sindhi, Panjabi, balochi, kashmiri and pathan.
In our Areas there is lot of cultures like jirga rules, which takes decision of different cases as court works.
In Haripur there is lot of greenery. The peoples of our areas and also Pakistani people give very respect to the others and they respect very much to teachers (from where they study and all other teachers).
Pakistani people wear dress as a shalwar kameez. People of Pakistan are very hardworking
Hare in below some pictures represent the some part of Pakistani culture
http://www.views.pk/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/117.jpg
http://www.sunsanee.com/portfolio/html/images/pakistani-trucks-buses.jpg
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl1/10/104169/21_2008/main.jpg
Pakistani wedding dress
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