### social society | culture:

Aboriginal culture
* Many Aboriginal cultures describe space travel.
* belongs to the Aboriginal people.
* pays great respect to elders.

African culture
* Many African cultures are the equivalent of 'endangered species'.
* is based on oral history
  - evident again in the beating of Bahian drums
  - oral, drama and music
* mixture of Arabic and European and various heritages of African values.
* speak a variety of languages and express their beliefs in many of their sculptures.
* strive to maintain tradition and continuity.
* use a large number of medicinal plants in their everyday lives.

### social society | culture:

American culture
* Most american culture eats potato
  - uses childbirth
* culture of many people.
* dominates the world.
* emphasizes individuality and requires wide personal space
  - the individual
* encourages positive feelings more than negative ones.
* extend into the history of the country.
* focuses on the individual.
* is built on the fundamental belief that everyone has worth as an individual
  - closer to the ideal that people are innocent until proven guilty
  - different from Japanese culture
  - drenched in nihilism
  - enriched by French culture
  - mongrel
  - obsessed with death
  - organized according to an egalitarian model
  - shaped by the Christian world view
  - so wildly popular that other countries pass laws against it
  - the most violent in the world
  - very fluid and complex with many subcultural groups whose values differ
* mixture of different cultures.
* operates on values that oppress the human spirit and repress human feelings.
* promotes certain acceptable images of men and women.
* shapes the face of death in larger ways.
* shrieking, plaid walrus with a mouthful of radishes.
* stresses honesty, integrity and creativity.
* tends to come down on the side of the individual.
* worships the cell phone as a demigod.

Ancient culture
* All ancient cultures have different variations of myths or stories about their gods and monsters
  - share a common series of circular geometric devices
* Many ancient cultures seem to have imagined it as a stream of various kinds.
* Most ancient culture builds monuments
  - stone monuments
* Most ancient cultures have a story about a big flood
  - stories or artwork of dragons that strongly resemble dinosaurs

Appalachian culture
* real and functioning culture.
* rich and varied tapestry of interlaced colors and textures.

### social society | culture:

Asian culture
* Many Asian cultures celebrate the Lunar New Year in their own ways
  - honor the color red
  - place a high importance on honor and duty
* Some asian culture uses gingkoes
  - sea vegetables
* celebrate many festivals.
* emphasize general reservation.
* have dramatically better endometrial health than Western cultures
  - lower prostate cancer death rates than Western cultures
* influences real estate in ways beyond migration patterns.
* is prominent in modern Hawaii, and much of it came from the early immigrants.
* place spiritual emphasis on how a rock is displayed
  - stone is displayed
* stresses duty and family.
* tend to be oriented toward a more distant future
  - read much from the face

Black culture
* is accepted by suburban youth as well as the world
  - fluid, it changes from place to place and over time
* is the essential signifier for cultural modernism and post-modernism
  - total bond as well as a specific self-identity
* predominates along the street and sidewalks.