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What Is Culture? Where Does Culture Come From?

Does culture, including music and language, create human behaviour, or does human behaviour create culture?

Culture is what we learn from each other. It applies to both humans and to non- human animals that have culture (and many do).

But where does human culture come from in the first place?

According to outmoded, biologically-unsupported thinking:

Human babies are formless blank slates at birth.
Therefore human culture comes from the “outside.”
Culture completely creates the human individual; the individual is the“product” of his or her culture.
Cultural or social transformation can change the essential nature of people (this is precisely what ideologues, such as a political and religious extremists, aim to do).

In other words, according to this line of thinking, culture creates and controls people.