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Culture What is culture? “… Culture is defined as the shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs (认知的建构), and affective understanding (情感的理解) that are learned through a process of socialization.” The essence of a culture is not its artifacts (人造物品), tools, or other tangible cultural elements but how the members of the group interpret, use, and perceive them. It is the values, symbols, interpretations, and perspectives that distinguish one people from another in modernized societies; “Culture: learned and shared human patterns or models for living; day- to-da