What is Culture? Part Three: Arbitrariness
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What is Culture? Part Three: Arbitrariness
Culture describes the conventions of a community, which guide individuals into regular behaviors and provide communal meanings and values.
What is Culture? Part Seven: Summary and Bibliography
Goodwill Hunting #10: cottagecore, girlboss culture, & the end of ambition
Danielle Vermeergoodwillhunt.substack.com
The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.
Living simultaneously in multiple cultures is part of what makes being a human tricky. Do we keep our individual inner values to ourselves and just do our best to match our external behavior to whatever culture we’re currently in a room with? Or do we stay loyal to one particular culture and live by those rules everywhere, even at our social or pro... See more