The Importance Of Culture Essay

In the earth, about 7.6 billion people are living, and they are all different. Some are white, black, yellow, red, brown and maybe other. They are all human, but they are different. Each country has their own style to live according to location or environment differences or others. Although human are one same species, they have all different cultures. Some people don’t understand the definition of “culture”. Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts (Kim Ann Zimmermann). This is why culture is important to countries, because if there is no culture in country, there will be no characteristic, history, tradition, and language of country.

many people in other countries move to other countries and get marry with local people. However, each country has their own behavior, so people sometime view other’s behavior as wrong way. For example, Vietnam is a country has summer for all season, so they have time for a nap. In their country, lunch time usually about two hours, and sleeping after lunch is known as good for health (Seoul-Yonhap News). When people other people see vietnam people in other country, they can think Vietnamese are lazy because during people work after lunch, they take a nap after lunch, but if they understand the reason why Vietnameses take a nap, their view will change. Some countries have a traditional culture and people treat those seriously. In Philippines, people have the traditional rumor that if a person take a picture of baby during the pregnant, the baby’s soul comes out, so they do not take a picture of baby in belly. When a husband, who doesn’t know about their culture, ask to take a picture of baby so he can save it for the memory, this might make her wife in hard time (Seoul-Yonhap News). In Japan, it is a culture to move the ashes of the dead person ,who already cremated, with chopstick, so if you try to move the food or feed a person with chopstick to japanese, they