Culture And Cultural Practices

The word culture is considered to be one of the most complex English words (Diane, 2016). Culture can be defined as a shared pattern of people's behavior or the way people live their lives. When people interact and socialize they come up with an understanding of doing things in a similar way or believing on certain things. Culture can be used as a way of identifying people from different ways of life (Diane, 2016). In most cases, culture is made up of food, religion, how people dress, what they dress, their language, music, marriage, their greeting, and many other things. Culture can be learned, people tend to copy what they see, when one stays in a certain place for a period of time they can adopt the culture of people living in that place,

The community tends to share their way of thinking or doing things from one generation to another. The results of a person's behavior can also influence their culture. It can affect them causing them to adopt new beliefs. However cultural practices can change as days goes by. This is as a result different inventions and adoption of different ways of doing things. To effectively transmit culture from one generation to another people tends to use symbols (Andy, 2013). Symbols are considered to be very important when it comes to cultural practices. Different people from different communities use different symbols to transmit different ideas, beliefs, and messages. Therefore, symbols are used as a form of language to transmit culture hence people sharing the same culture should agree on the meaning of different symbols to avoid confusion (Diane,

However, within the last thirty years, this has also changed about 70% of women are now working outside their homes. As a result, more men are taking part in house hold chores and taking care of children. With changes in culture and beliefs, most women are now in a position to participate in some jobs that were previously set aside for men (CGCL, 2017). This includes being evolved in political affairs and they can also enter the government with same status as that of their male counterparts. However, there are still more men in the political field than women. In addition there still exists bias in some industries, the healthcare industry where men tend to gather more respect and are in high ranks (Vance, 2011). Most men are doctors while women are