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Culture: Can it be defined or does it change too much to be defined?
Edward T. Hall gave people a new perspective on how to define and analyze different cultures effectively. According to Hall’s Beyond Culture, culture is “evolved independently of his physiology” and not innate (42). Everything that a person does can be related to culture: the way he speaks, acts, stands, and handles time and space. These are all learned over time and are malleable. However, once these “habitual responses, behavior patterns, and ways of interacting are learned, they sink below the conscious level and become unconscious,” which leads people to believe that culture is intrinsic (45). Hall mainly describes proxemics, “the interrelated observations and theories of man’s use of space as a specialized elaboration of culture” (“Hidden Dimensions” 1). According to this idea, we can understand a culture by observing the way people of that culture interact with others and utilize space......

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