Culture is the treasury of knowledge. Culture preserves knowledge and helps its transmission from generation to generation through its means that is language, it helps not only the transmission of knowledge but also its preservation. Understanding culture in terms of human lives, it can also be defined as the body of human customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits constituting a distinct complex of tradition of a racial, religious, or social group. According to me, culture defines our social attributes, such as what we eat and drink, how we dress, in which situations we laugh, weep, sleep, love to be friends with, what profession we like, what god we worship, what knowledge we rely upon, and what type of music we like to listen to. Each person grows up with the teachings of his or her parents or primary care-givers. For some, the teachings of childhood are filled with deep, cultural and religious significance. For others, the teachings are intended to help the child to set aside cultural beliefs and practices in order to assimilate into the dominant culture. The
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When she is a child, Kaur’s mother teaches her the beliefs and behaviors of a Sikh woman. Just as most children are not aware that they are learning cultural traditions when their parents tell them stories or help them establish grooming practices, so Kaur is unaware that the daily ritual of washing her hair and of grooming her long, thick hair is dinning Sikh cultural beliefs and practices. “Mama piles the strands of hair atop my head and squeezes out more shampoo. She beams as she sculpts my hair into a temple” (Hirschberg & Hirschberg, 2012, p. 59). Kaur depicts her mother 's aesthetic expression and also her initial comprehension of the cultural significance of the ritual grooming when she writes of her lathered hair as a
When she is a child, Kaur’s mother teaches her the beliefs and behaviors of a Sikh woman. Just as most children are not aware that they are learning cultural traditions when their parents tell them stories or help them establish grooming practices, so Kaur is unaware that the daily ritual of washing her hair and of grooming her long, thick hair is dinning Sikh cultural beliefs and practices. “Mama piles the strands of hair atop my head and squeezes out more shampoo. She beams as she sculpts my hair into a temple” (Hirschberg & Hirschberg, 2012, p. 59). Kaur depicts her mother 's aesthetic expression and also her initial comprehension of the cultural significance of the ritual grooming when she writes of her lathered hair as a