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Acknowledgement


A big thank you to everyone who has contributed in many ways to make this assignment a working success. This includes the many individuals in my big family tree that I have consulted, bugged and debated. Not forgetting my lecturer, Ms Penny Low who narrated her experience in many interesting ways and made it easier for me to comprehend what culture is all about.

Once again, another big thank you to everyone who had made this working paper a reality.
What is Culture?


Culture can be defined and intepreted in many ways. There is and has been extensive research and approaches to culture by academics and scholar. As of 1963, Kroeber and Klohn reported a 163 definations of culture (Ulijn. 2002).

One of the many popular views is by Hofstede who refers to culture as the “collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one human group of people from another.” It is believed that the ‘mental’ programming of the mind is learned from ...