What is Culture?

Culture is learned, it is not genetic or inherited.  Social Scientists through time have successfully proven that we learn behaviors that become part of who we are.  In Communication Between Cultures it is said "Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another."   Quite simply this says that teaching with repetition (programming) can help differentiate (distinguish) between different types of people.  With culture being a learned behavior it is easy to see how the increase of Mexican immigrants into California has affected both their culture and that of California.

- written by Dina and Stacey