IrelandThis article will study the culture of Ireland by examining the five characteristics. Each characteristic will be assigned its own subsections. The first section will encompass history to illuminate the connection between a country's struggle and its scholarly culture. I will communicate the key aspects that connect an individual culture to the region of the world it inhabits in the second section. In the third section, the language and art of the country are discussed to draw lines to the symbols on which a culture is based. The fourth section of the essay is devoted to the characteristic of culture being composed of many components. This is illustrated by the island's ethnicity/racial affiliation, weather, terrain, and military distribution. The final section comments on the dynamic characteristic that interacting cultures learn, develop and transform as a result of their shared contact and friction. Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experiences, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions. of time, roles, spatial relationships, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people over generations through individual and collective efforts. Culture refers to the knowledge systems shared by a relatively large group of people… Culture in its broadest sense of cultivated behavior; a totality of experience acquired and accumulated by a person that is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior through social learning (http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/choudhury/culture.html). Culture has five basic characteristics: learned, shared, symbol-based, integrated, and dynamic (http://home.eartlink.net/~youngturck/Chapter8.htm). CULTURE IS LEARNING...... middle of paper ...... language and art to interpret a better understanding of Irish symbols. The fourth section of the essay focused on the country's ethnicity/racial background, weather, terrain, and military elements. The final section provided an overview of some of culture's contributions to the world. Works Cited Choudhury, Ifte. "Culture." Cultural definition. Texas A&M University. Internet. January 11, 2014. http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/choudhury/culture.html.Youngturck. “Characteristics of culture”. Characteristics of culture. Land connection. Internet. January 12, 2014. http://home.eartlink.net/~youngturck/Chapter8.htm. “Background of the Irish language”. Irish and Gaeltacht. Udaras na Gaelachta. Internet. January 13, 2014. http://www.udara.ie/en/an-ghaeilige-an-ghaeltacht/stair-na-gaeilge/.“Ethnicity/Race”. Ireland. Makes a Monster. Internet. January 14, 2014. http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107648.html.