woensdag 7 augustus 2013

Culture

CULTURE, one word with so many definitions.
  • Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.
  • Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people.
  • Culture is communication, communication is culture.
  • Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behavior; that is the totality of a person's learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior through social learning.
  • A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.
  • Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its symbols include a group's skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions.
  • Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other hand, as conditioning influences upon further action.
  • Culture is the sum of total of the learned behavior of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation.
  • Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another.

So, when there are so many definitions, then there is only one attitude to counter: RESPECT,  means: NO judgments, NO prejudices. Take it or leave it!

dinsdag 6 augustus 2013

Social Media

To my opinion, Social Media is an invention which grows too vast. Unlike the industrial revolution where inventions took the time for it's implementation, Social Media is implemented just before it works well, just before the rules are set and determined. There is no time to think carefully, because when you do not do it NOW, tomorrow you're much too late. Such character makes that the each users of defined the use of social media their own.

Each user use social media to their own need. When we move this behave to a road traffic situation, OMG!!! this is even worst than the roundabout at Arch the Triomph in Paris or the whole city of Jakarta....

Rules distinguishes human from animal, rules forms civilization. The question is where is civilization in this social media era?