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Unit Six Culture And Media文化与传媒It is easy to think of examples of culture but difficult to define the term. The British musician and artist Brian Eno had a try, suggesting that “Culture is what we don’t have to do”. We can explain his definition by considering how much culture is a part of the smallest details of our lives: we have to eat, but we don’t have to eat rice as Japanese sushi or Spanish Paella; we have to walk, but we don’t have to dance Cowboy line dances or Viennese waltzes. Whatever we don’t strictly have to do, from food to fashion to furniture, becomes part of our individual cu