Culture

What is culture?

a : the integrated Links to an external site. pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations

b : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life} shared by people in a place or time <popular culture> <southern culture>

c : the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization <a corporate culture focused on the bottom line>

d : the set of values, conventions Links to an external site., or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic <studying the effect of computers on print culture> <changing the culture of materialism will take time — Peggy O'Mara>

Taken from: (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture)

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The idea of culture is often compared to an iceberg.  One thing that most people know about icebergs is that the majority of it is under the water.  Unseen.  It’s essential that we examine the unseen part of ourselves.  The pieces of our values and beliefs that we don’t question because we see them as “normal” or “common sense”.

 

Which of the levels: surface, shallow, or deep, is most important for someone to have knowledge of if they want to get to KNOW you?