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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of cultures. Traditional cultures and non-traditional cultures such as Christianity and otakuhood are explored. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to adapt ones self to. For this reason, even in a globalized world, individuals still tend to adhere strongly to the cultural norms that they are born into, becoming representatives
of the same cultural ideas. In recent years, however, there has been a trend towards multiculturalism, which is to say, the acceptance of a broad range of diverse or even
contradictory cultures as a preferable state of affairs to a homogenous singular culture. This attitude is in sharp contrast to the predominantly tribalist cultural identification of generations past. This change
is due, in part, to the rise of non-traditional cultural models in an age when geographic boundaries are less meaningful and restrictive than at any other point in history. This
paper will explore the difference between traditional and non-traditional models of culture. This paragraph helps the student explore the concept of a traditional culture. In a traditional cultural model, one
finds culture defined almost exclusively by "traditions, rules, symbols, and principles established in the past" (Shiraev & Levy, 2010). It is a model of culture that derives from the establishment
of the city-state; as certain groups of people settled in one place, they began developing a consistent culture based upon newly unchanging societal conditions, and passing this culture down to
their children, who largely lived in the same geographical spaces. One excellent example of a traditional culture is Christianity, an enduring religious culture that began with localized geographic roots and
now has adherents all across the world. Despite its widespread adoption and cultural power, Christianity remains fairly traditional and rooted in the past; scholars have declared that for Christians, culture
is often seen as "an effort at submission to the truth and the beauty and the good that is outside [man]" (Murray, 2011). In other words, it is a cultural
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