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1. Culture

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   The term 'culture' derives from the Latin cultura, meaning 'cultivation' or 'tillage,' initially referring to the tending of crops. By the 18th century, Enlightenment thinkers began applying this agricultural metaphor to the development of the human mind and refinement of social manners, leading to the concept of 'cultivation of the self' [2].
   The distinction between singular 'Culture' (often capitalized, referring to an ideal standard of artistic or intellectual achievement, sometimes termed 'high culture') and plural 'cultures' (referring to distinct, comparative systems of social organi…