Chapter 2: Who has Culture?

Focus Question: What is Culture?

Today’s Menu

• Taste of:– U2’s One

• Main Course:– Group Work: Culture – Explore the 3 levels of culture– Identify the 7 traits of culture

• Dessert:– You are going to develop 3 P.E.C.

Group Work (approx. 7 mins)

• In your groups – Please complete the following:– Complete the web and have a member of the group present the

group’s findings – Complete a web for Culture answering such questions as:

• What is the definition of culture?• What does culture look like?• What are the messages that culture sends?• What are the characteristics of culture?

What’s the definition of culture?

• Culture:– Set of __________________, beliefs,

__________________ and rules for living shared by groups and societies as the source of their __________________

Got Culture?

• Who has culture?– __________________

– Culture pervades all we __________________, how we think, how we speak, how we act, how we dress, how we eat etc.

7 Traits of Culture

• What would you say are some of the characteristics of culture?

7 Characteristics of Culture

1. Humans Create __________________

• Distinguishes from the rest of nature

2. Culture consists of ways of __________________ things

• Focuses on “__________________” we carry out the __________________

7 Characteristics of Culture

3. Culture is __________________• It’s not about how “__________________”

do things but rather how a “__________________” of people do things

4. Culture arises from __________________

– Many of the way we do things have been __________________ down

7 Characteristics of Culture

• 5. Culture is made up of __________________-__________________ actions– The traditions that have been passed down

unto us and we come to treat them as rules

7 Characteristics of Culture

• 6. Culture becomes established in __________________

• The traditions then become agreed upon among people and then they become incorporated as a “__________________” (known as __________________)

7 Characteristics of Culture

• 7. Culture gives us our __________________

• The way we do things becomes our cultural __________________ because it sets us apart from other __________________

2 Person Group • “I am Canadian” commercialHey.

I'm not a lumberjack,or a fur trader...and I don't live in an iglooor eat blubber, or own a dogsled...and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada,although I'm certain they're really, really nice.

I have a Prime Minister,not a President.I speak English and French,NOT American.and I pronouce it ABOUT,NOT A BOOT.

• Develop your own brief commercial focusing upon the positive aspect

• I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing.DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation,AND THAT THE BEAVER IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.A TOQUE IS A HAT,A CHESTERFIELD IS A COUCH,AND IT IS PRONOUCED 'ZED' NOT 'ZEE', 'ZED'!

• CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS!THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY!AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!

• MY NAME IS JOE!AND I AM CANADIAN!