Culture provides life with a sense of structure that people feel they can follow. Cultural heritage means to me, anything that conjures up images of or shows what it means to be a person of a certain culture. Culture is all around us, as pervasive and necessary as water is to a school of fish. So the Holocaust may be history to Germans but heritage to Jews. Culture provides life with a sense of structure that people feel they can follow.
Cultural heritage is developed through experience.
It is not something that can easily be taught. I tend to think, then, that cultural heritage generally encompasses more than culture itself. In sharing a common history, customs, belief, etc. In thinking about my own personal cultural heritage I began to think of what is important to me. I tried to think about what I would display if I had to create a museum exhibit on my cultural heritage.