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	The Fine Line Between Enlightened Conversations and Nitpicking Complainers and Talking with Americans ... "I accept that I am 100 percent American, and it is impossible to stop being what I am.
	The Americanization of Andy Lee Graham Tour ... "I am Andy Lee Graham, I have lived outside the USA for 14 years, I am doing a USA Road Trip, and maybe the goal is the Americanization of me in 2012.
	Cultural Immersion using Mathew 25:40 ... "Cultural Immersion is easier with other cultures when you learn how to treat the least, the most, or all people the same.
	We are Not Fools, Obviously Going to Another State in the USA we Expect it to be Different ... "Culture shock is real, I read this interesting ramble about culture shock, it was intriguing to me.
	Video of Small Predator Haitian Girl Following Me to Mark Her Territorial Right to the Area ... "This is a rare and difficult to capture video of a natural human behavior by humans to follow another human for what I consider territorial marking.
	Cultural Fatigue when Living Abroad is Not Paradise ... "Explanation of cultural fatigue by Andy Lee Graham, a seasoned traveler for over 14 years.
	I Must be the Ugly American for Internet Business Reasons This Sucks ... "The best life possible for an American is to never understand, never learn from the Eurotrash why they are angry with Americans.
	I've Been Kicked Out of the American Culture ... "Somewhere along the travel path, the USA culture decided I do not fit in, I am wondering if they will accept me back if I keep my mouth shut?
	American Culture Does Not Want to Listen to Global Views ... "Talking about my perpetual travels around the planet is a great way to lose friends.
	Cultural Immersion ... "To be surrounded, engulfed, and drenched by a culture, when a person feels uncomfortable because nothing feels normal.

Culture Defined: Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate") is a term that has various meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions. However, the word "culture" is most commonly used in three basic senses:

Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture.

An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning

The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group

When the concept first emerged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, it connoted a process of cultivation or improvement, as in agriculture or horticulture. In the nineteenth century, it came to refer first to the betterment or refinement of the individual, especially through education, and then to the fulfillment of national aspirations or ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, some scientists used the term "culture" to refer to a universal human capacity. For the German nonpositivist sociologist, Georg Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history".

     In the twentieth century, "culture" emerged as a concept central to anthropology, encompassing all human phenomena that are not purely results of human genetics. Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings: (1) the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and (2) the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively. Following World War II, the term became important, albeit with different meanings, in other disciplines such as cultural studies, organizational psychology and management studies.

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