What is culture? Would you be able to provide an honest, direct, and clear response? I like Jeane Kirkpatrick’s definition below and plan to use it at a future workshop, panel discussion or conversation.
“Culture includes the entire symbolic environment. Culture defines reality: what is, what should be, what can be. It provides focus and meaning. It selects out of the myriad of events and interactions in the world those we pay attention to. Culture tells us what is important; what causes what, how events beyond our lives relate to us. Culture gives us values and standards of value. What we may distinguish analytically (and at our peril) as fact, value, and goal is existentially integrated in culture – in identifications, expectations, and demands of individual persons.” Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, was the Reagan administration’s first United Nations ambassador and a beacon of neoconservative thought who helped guide American military, diplomatic and covert action from 1981 to 1985.
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