### social society | culture:

Disability culture
* Disability Cultures are the armamentarium for the emancipation from the non-disability illusion
  - organized creative activities of people with disabilities
* encompasses a body of knowledge about societal barriers.
* is about naming, about recognizing.

Diverse culture
* arise from diverse places.
* have many differences, as well as a host of things to share in common.

Dominant culture
* define who is primitive and who is civilized.
* destroy or take over landscape monuments of dominated cultures.

Eastern culture
* Many Eastern cultures have much less violence than the United States and other Western cultures
  - use silence as a common and preferred form of communication
* believe that pearls symbolize purity and spiritual transformation.
* gives freedom within the bounds of duty to elders, spouse and children.
* regards purity as more than just physical.
* tend to store and rotate objects.

Egyptian culture
* boasts five millennia of recorded history.
* differs greatly from traditional Western culture.
* is much appreciated in the other Arab countries.

English culture
* is made up of people from Europe, Asia, Africa, and many other places.
* tend to oscillate between aristocratic and popular movements.

Entire culture
* believe differently than some mainstream Western beliefs.
* have preferences for one sex or the other.

European culture
* are older and more cynical than American ones.
* is the well spring and guarantor of democracy, the rule of law and human rights.
* makes the mid-Atlantic states the nation's Pretzel Belt.
* tend to link bats with evil.

French culture
* Most french culture encourages consumption.
* component of all language classes.

Hispanic culture
* is also extensively studied through readings, movies, music, art and other media
  - attuned to the mysteries of life
* tends to emphasize obedience and to value respect for adult authority.

### social society | culture:

Human culture
* All human culture is based on common themes and ideas that are universal to all human beings.
* Every human culture has a spiritual element
  - knives and cutlery of some sort, as do almost all animals
  - makes music
* Most human cultures place a positive value on reproduction.
* carries with it a historical and social aspect.
* curve of expanding potentiality.
* exerts an overwhelming selection pressure on machine mutation.
* exhibit both similarities and differences.
* focuses almost exclusively on rational issues.
* has impact.
* is all about technology
  - also an offshoot with odd adaptations
  - constituted by external relations
  - given to humans by Gods
* product of evolutionary strategies
  - our own making
* seems to evolve rather toward cooperation than competition.
* vary considerably, one from the other
  - greatly over time and around the world
* vast collection of memes, a memetic ecosystem.

### social society | culture:

Indian culture
* Most Indian cultures continue to rely upon strong oral traditions.
* are dead or dying
  - rich and diverse
* goes further than sexuality when it defines what it means to be a good Indian woman.
* have a rich history and they have many different forms and qualities.
* is an important piece of the mosaic formed by the American scene today
  - different things to different people
  - present in the finer details of decorative motifs and other traditional elements
  - seen as one key to reducing racism
* rely on verbal stories to pass down the history.
* thrive today in many exciting forms.
* traces their roots back a millennium before the arrival of the Spanish explorers.

Indigenous culture
* All indigenous cultures are solar in origin and follow the solstices and equinoxes.
* emphasize human reliance on and human interconnectedness with nature.
* has similar institutional values.
* recognize that storytelling can reshape an individuals experience or life story.