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1. acbvolos wrote ∼Tuesday, Jan 22

   Higher level of civilization superior intelligence and leadership in all topics

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2. terryrho wrote ∼Tuesday, Jan 22

   πρέπει να διευκρινιστή γιά ποιόν πολιτισμό μιλάμε μοντέρνο η τον κλασικό

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3. romanticboygr wrote ∼Friday, Jan 25

   Defining at first what culture is (taking from Wikipedia): "Defining "culture" Culture can be defined as all the behaviors, ways of life, arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behavior such as law and morality, and systems of belief as well as the arts and gastronomy. [4] Various definitions of culture reflect differing theories for understanding, or criteria for evaluating, human activity. Edward Burnett Tylor writing from the perspective of social anthropology in the UK in 1871 described culture in the following way: "Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."[5] More recently, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) (2002) described culture as follows: "... culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs".[6] While these two definitions cover a range of meaning, they do not exhaust the many uses of the term "culture." In 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions.[7] These definitions, and many others, provide a catalog of the elements of culture. The items cataloged (e.g., a law, a stone tool, a marriage) each have an existence and life-line of their own. They come into space-time at one set of coordinates and go out of it another. While here, they change, so that one may speak of the evolution of the law or the tool. A culture, then, is by definition at least, a set of cultural objects. Anthropologist Leslie White asked: "What sort of objects are they? Are they physical objects? Mental objects? Both? Metaphors? Symbols? Reifications?" In Science of Culture (1949), he concluded that they are objects "sui generis"; that is, of their own kind. In trying to define that kind, he hit upon a previously unrealized aspect of symbolization, which he called "the symbolate"—an object created by the act of symbolization. He thus defined culture as "symbolates understood in an extra-somatic context."[8] The key to this definition is the discovery of the symbolate. Seeking to provide a practical definition, social theorist, Peter Walters, describes culture simply as "shared schematic experience", including, but not limited to, any of the various qualifiers (linguistic, artistic, religious, etc.) included in previous definitions."

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4. romanticboygr wrote ∼Friday, Jan 25

   Greek people in general feel a strong link with their past, emphasizing the Classical period of Greek history, its links via the Hellenistic world to Byzantium, and on to the present. Both Classical and Byzantine Greece represent for the majority of Greeks antecedents of the modern day Hellenic Republic. For a time in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the former boundaries of the Byzantine Empire, or more specifically those which until this period had still retained their Greek populations, came for some to represent an ideal extent of the modern state. The cultural and linguistic continuity of the Greek people, however complicated it may have been through history by outside influences, such as Christianity upon latter antiquity, or pressure from without in the final stages of the Byzantine Empire, are things that are strongly emphasized by today's Greeks - being as they are, one of the most patriotic nations in Europe, according to Eurostat. A typical, if rather touristy, Greek taverna, epitomising the laid back spirit of the Greek people.Following the Revolution of 1821 (for more information, see Greek War of Independence), Greece went through a period of artistic and cultural revival. Greeks today tend to regard the years before the Revolution, those of occupation of Greece by the Ottoman Empire, as the 'years of darkness', in which cultural development was perceived to have halted completely. Despite evidence to the contrary particularly in regard of earlier Cretan Greek literature, Greece's revival following the formation of the first Hellenic Republic in 1831 is regarded by a huge majority of Greeks as the earliest rebirth of their nation. Experience of occupation, both in the Ottoman and modern era, has left an indelible mark on the Greek psyche. In the twentieth century, the trauma of the Greek Civil War during which time the nation became the first theatre of the Cold War immediately following World War II, which itself brought a Nazi occupation of enormous privations, and the perceived interference of the U.S. in creating the Regime of the Colonels, which brutally governed Greece from 1967 to 1974, led cumulatively to the emergence of an 'Ethnos Anadelfon' (or 'Brotherless Nation') idea, emphasizing the only people Greeks could count on were themselves and their countrymen. However, from the mid-1970s onward, in parallel with Spain and Portugal, and above all following the entry of Greece into the European Union in 1981, Greece's orientation, and the aspirations of its majority, became focused around the European mainstream. Greeks remain on the whole an extrovert and friendly people, known for their hospitality and somewhat relaxed approach to the demands and pressures of daily life, by turns common to all Southern European nations and their peoples, and in an earlier era captured by Nikos Kazantzakis' novel Zorba the Greek. Some in Greece regard this 'live and let live' approach, however, as more clearly conveyed in economic terms as a moderate work ethic; others prefer to reaffirm their position by highlighting the near sub-tropical climate of much of Greece compared to much of Northern Europe and thus the necessity for the famous afternoon 'siesta'.

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5. romanticboygr wrote ∼Friday, Jan 25

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Greece Nice Wikipedia effort about Greek culture ...

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