Directions: Match the characteristics of culture with the explanations . 1 Culture is learned, not hereditary. 2 Culture is transmitted. 3 Culture is based on symbol. 4 Culture is dynamic. 5 Culture is selective. 6 Culture is an integrated system. • Cultures, once formed, are of strength and stability, but they are never static and subject to fluctuation with social development. As on-going new ideas and products are being presented, cultures evolve with changes through the mechanisms of innovation, diffusion and acculturation. ( ) • Culture must be reasonably composed of related parts in order to function. The integrated ingredients of culture are very complex and influence every aspect of our lives. ( ) • Every culture represents a limited choice of behavior patterns from the infinite patterns of human experience. This selection, whether from the surface culture of what we should eat to the deep structure of reaching God, is made according to the basic assumptions and values that are meaningful to each culture. ( ) • Symbols are words, gestures, pictures, or objects that carry a particular meaning which is only recognized by those who share a particular culture. The symbols of a culture enable us to pass on the content and patterns of a culture. The portability of symbols allows us to package, store them, transmit them. Therefore we can spread our culture through symbols such as pictures, films, videos, and the like to record our history, our heroes and our custom and habits. ( ) • Culture can be seen as “a kind of social inheritance” (Charon, 1999:94) transmitted from generation to generation through various channels, such as schools, stories, art, families, and tribes.( ) • Our behavioral patterns, thinking habits, mental attitudes and moral attributes result from relating to people, and reacting to people’s actions and responses, events and objects in the environment. ( )