Culture and change

Culture is about lifestyles and creativity of individuals and groups.  It encompasses everyday living, special occasions and beautiful and useful creations of poets, artists, musicians, writers, scientists, architects, businesses people, voluntary groups, etc.  The social or isolated activities that people undertake are forms of cultural expressions.

Interactions of people and their lifestyles do not happen in a vacuum.  Individuals and groups do this or that because there are meanings associated with decisions and actions. Theories, myths, social values, religious rules, aesthetic feelings and tastes, etc. underpin all human activities.  Over time actions and meanings mutually influence each other's development and evolution. 

Sometimes the process of change takes place predominantly through the interplay of a community's own internal factors, if the group in question is relatively isolated.  More dynamic and dramatic changes within a group are usually associated with greater levels of interactions with the outside world.

Whether internally caused or the result of external factors or a combination of both the changes in human activities and their underpinned meanings are primarily rooted within the original or earlier foundations of a community’s cultural base. 

A better understanding of the dynamics and evolution of human cultures will enable people from diverse backgrounds to co-exist and benefit from increased interactions.