Through our social interactions with others, we learn more about our culture and how to deal with new situations. The tools of our culture are critical in this development. Social activity is the corner stone of Vygotsky's theory. For Vygotsky, culture was all important . It included language and the practices, values and beliefs of a distinct group of people which had been accumuliated and transmitted from one generationt to the next, generally by the system of language itself.
Culture is a human generated phenomenon, a historical accumulation of one's world.
The child is exposed to this collective wisdom through their daily interactions with more knowledgable memebers of the community. This can be an adult, or may be an older or more competent child. For example, an 8-year old American child could visit a Central American country with his family. No one individual is born with culture . Tools and ways of thinking are part of the phenonmenon called community, and are transmitted to children thorugh social interactions.