French Culture
At this paper I will try to clarify cultural differences between Turkey and France in terms of: * Language * Religion * Human Relationships * Education * Lifestyle * Holidays
First of all I would like to start with the definition of culture. Definition of culture
Culture has many definitions, and it affects everything people do in their society because of their ideas, values, attitudes, and normative or expected patterns of behaviour.
Culture is not genetically inherited, and cannot exist on its own, but is always shared by members of a society (Hall 1976, p. 16). Hofstede (1980, pp. 21-23) defines culture as
“the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another”, which is passed from generation to generation, it is changing all the time because each generation adds something of its own before passing it on. It is usual that one’s culture is taken for granted and assumed to be correct because it is the only one, or at least the first, to be learned.
Culture is a complex concept, and no single definition of it has achieved consensus in the literature. So, out of the many possible definitions examined, the following definition guides this study: culture is a set of shared and enduring meaning, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups and orient their behaviour (Mulholland
1991).
Language Language is one of the key elements of a national culture, diversity of the languages in a country shows the cultural richness and different ethnic origins. As an example in Turkey Turkish is the official language of the country, however there are three more languages which have more than 15% of the population as native speakers. These languages takes place in different areas of Turkey, at the southeast of Turkey we have Kurdish citizens and Araps, Kurdish and Arabic is like the second official language at that area. At the north of Turkey we
First of all I would like to start with the definition of culture. Definition of culture
Culture has many definitions, and it affects everything people do in their society because of their ideas, values, attitudes, and normative or expected patterns of behaviour.
Culture is not genetically inherited, and cannot exist on its own, but is always shared by members of a society (Hall 1976, p. 16). Hofstede (1980, pp. 21-23) defines culture as
“the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another”, which is passed from generation to generation, it is changing all the time because each generation adds something of its own before passing it on. It is usual that one’s culture is taken for granted and assumed to be correct because it is the only one, or at least the first, to be learned.
Culture is a complex concept, and no single definition of it has achieved consensus in the literature. So, out of the many possible definitions examined, the following definition guides this study: culture is a set of shared and enduring meaning, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups and orient their behaviour (Mulholland
1991).
Language Language is one of the key elements of a national culture, diversity of the languages in a country shows the cultural richness and different ethnic origins. As an example in Turkey Turkish is the official language of the country, however there are three more languages which have more than 15% of the population as native speakers. These languages takes place in different areas of Turkey, at the southeast of Turkey we have Kurdish citizens and Araps, Kurdish and Arabic is like the second official language at that area. At the north of Turkey we