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1. The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions and art, from one generation to the next. (www.dictionary.com/browse/culture)
2. Culture is a fuzzy set of basic assumptions and values, orientations to life, beliefs, policies, procedures and behavioural conventions that are shared by a group of people, and that influence (but do not determine) each member's behaviour and his/her interpretations of the 'meaning' of other people's behaviour. (Spencer-Oatey 2001)
3. Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another. (Hofstede 1994)
4. Culture means the way we do things around here. (Unknown)
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