What is a cultural pattern?

Question

What is a cultural pattern?

Answer 1

It's a pattern that follows long established ways of social and cultural traditions of any given society !

Answer 2

Hey, ya know school starts tomorrow...don't you find it kinda late for finishing the AP assignments? Hmm...summary #4...i suppose you're asking this regarding this question:

Explain why distinct cultural patterns emerged throughout the ancient world and discuss the achievements of these civilizations. Identify specific civilizations as examples in your response.

Ok, so, in this question...cultural patterns are patterns which are developed in culture such as religion, economic, and the others written on the PERSIAN CHARTS...which i strongly suggest you use...compare your persian charts...and yep there ya are...

Answer 3

Well, something that a culture shares or communicates through time.

Architecture, How we Live, How we work, Language , Clothes , Music and Art , our ethics, our food, almost everything is or can be culturally based or informed by a culture , it can also be related in time.

There are many major cultural groups in the world.

European cultural groups, where the latinized alphabet and arabic number system are the major language hybrid used throughout the world.

Chinese and Asian cultures use an entirely different numbering system as well as language construct altogether using advanced glyph and iconographic languages.

Music is perhaps the easiest to think of. Consider classical music, this is what people listened to two to three hundred years ago. Then people started changing their styles of music, and eventually it was informed and influenced by African American musical traditions, and you ended up with Jazz and the Blues. Add a touch of modern flair and rebellious lyrics to things and you end up with Rock and Roll.

That's how something can change in culture through time.

"Going down to Dixie" (from the Civil War Era) is just as American as "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" was during WW2, or "Nine Inch Nails - Closer", they are very different in many respects, but they are all informed by different circumstances at different times, but all are part of a common cultural experience and they represent a pattern through time.

I don't know what that means our great-grand kids will be listening to, but sooner or later someone will probably think of Trent Reznor in the same way we think of Francis Scott Key (wrote the star spangled banner).

Architecture is another concept which is HUGELY informed by culture, but here culture can be abstracted, so that you aren't building a house to an "American" or "Chinese" idealized form, but to some other kind of ideal, so there are "minimalist" houses, or ornate "Gothic" houses, which are designed around the ideals of those times or with those ideas in mind.

Food is another example (and sometimes really funny).

One of the funnier shorts on Youtube is a short commentary on war, from an American perspective, using nothing but sound effects and food to refer to the various cultures and civilizations involved in various historical battles and events.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yldqNkG...