Presented by: Group 1

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a

particular group of people, encompassing language,
religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. The word
"culture" derives from a French term, which in turn
derives from the Latin "colere," which means to tend to
the earth and grow, or cultivation and nurture.
 Adler (1997, 15) has synthesized many
definitions of culture. She says that culture is:
Something that is shared by all or almost all
members of some social group. Something that the
older members of the group try to pass on to the
younger members.
 Local culture is everything we share in our field of
work, places we usually go to, and even in our workplace
that has become a part of our lives. In addition, local culture
manifests that people's daily knowledge mainly came from
shared experiences about life and those other information
that has been transmitted from either on their family,
neighbors, colleagues, and co-workers.
 Global culture is a set of shared
experiences, norms, ideas and like that unites
people ideally and globally. This culture could
possibly exist at global, national, and super cultural
levels.
 It involves barriers that
Culture differentialism
prevent flows that serve
defines culture as a
to make alike; Culture
clearly bound entity with
tend to remain
a specific geological
stubbornly different from
location.
one another.
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The most famous and controversial example of
cultural differentialism theory is Samuel Huntington’s clash of
civilizations and the remaking of the world order

According to him, after the Cold War, political-

economic differences were overshadowed by new fault lines
which were primarily cultural in nature. Increasing interaction
among different “civilizations” (such as the Sinic, Islamic,
Orthodox, Western) would lead to intense clashes, especially
economic conflict between the West and Sinic civilization and
bloody political conflict between the Western and the Islamic
civilizations. This theory has been critiqued for a number of
reasons, especially its portrayal of Muslims as being “prone to
violence.”
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Another example of cultural

differentialism is the terrorist attacks on
9/11 and the subsequent wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq. To many people,
these events are seen as the product of a
clash between Western and Islamic culture
and the eternal differences between them.
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The last example of cultural
differentialism is the increasing multi-
culturalism in US (Hispanic population and
Western European countries (largely the
growing of Muslim population) and the vast
differences, and enmity, between majority
and minority of the populations. Clashing
cultures can have a huge impact on both
cultures, countries and the entire world.
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https://www.nap.edu/read/9599/chapter/5
http://eprints.rclis.org/7999/1/077-155e.htm
Thank
you!