Culture can be understood generally as the totality of socially transmitted behaviors, beliefs, and institutions that constitute a system or way of living for a particular people.  Although we might refine this definition, the common view is that the system we call culture connects people to their surrounding world.  It is a network of beliefs, customs, practices, behaviors, and values.  Although culture is a complex idea used in the most sweeping and abstract ways, each of us experiences culture(s) everyday in the smallest and most familiar things: in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the rituals we practice.

In Beyond Borders:  See Ivette Chavarria, "Cooking Culture: The Tamale"; K Anthony Appiah's "The Multicultural Mistake"; and Benjamin Barber, "Jihad vs. McWorld."

In Beyond Borders Online:  See Web Research Activities, "Virtual Tourism."

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