ABSTRACT
The scientific study of culture reveals great variety and various disputes and scholars often differ on what culture actually ‘is’. Unlike animals, humans develop a culture. An important function of culture is related to the reduction of uncertainty or even anxiety which, consequently, leads to more continuity, because less time is spent on various mutual adjustments within a group. Human nature corresponds to the programs all humans around the world are instilled with, but this ‘software’ can be influenced by both culture and personality. Culture is the acquired and collective knowledge groups or categories of people use to interpret experience and generate behaviour, which distinguishes them from other groups or categories of people. Culture is a fuzzy set of attitudes, beliefs, behavioural conventions, and basic assumptions and values that are shared by a group of people, and that influence each member’s behaviour and each member’s interpretations of the ‘meaning’ of other people’s behaviour.
