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Culture

The learned, shared system of meanings, practices, values, and assumptions a group uses to organize its life together — largely invisible to the people living inside it, the way a fish does not experience water as wet. Ruth Benedict argued no one perceives the world with 'pristine eyes'; every perception is filtered through inherited categories a person did not choose and mostly does not notice.

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