Culture

• culture: the culture, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
• Three major cultural traits are food preference, architecture, and land use.
• Ethnocentrism- the tendency to view other cultures only through the lens of one's own culture; the belief that one's ethnic group or culture is superior to another.
• Cultural relativism- the ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make judgments using the standards of one's own culture