What is Culture

Anthropologists define culture as the values, beliefs, traditions and meanings that are shared by a group of people. Uzbek culture, for example characterized by the value placed on individual expression, a belief a self-improvement, traditional holidays like Ramadan, Navruz and the meanings Uzbeks associate with all of these. Or, if we take European and American culture we can see the same characteristics. These are only a partial list, of course, but students get the idea.