Understanding Principles of Kingdom Culture
1. Once you understand the culture of the people, you understand the people.
2. Culture is the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties by education, expert care and training.
3. Culture is the enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training.
4. Culture is the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
5. Culture is the customary beliefs, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious or social group.
6. Culture is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterize a company or corporation.
7. Culture means to grow in a prepared medium.
8. The battle for earth is the battle for culture.
Focus Point: Now what I have learned concerning culture. It encompasses many things. But once you understand the culture of a people, you will understand the people. Everything that makes a nation and its people is wrapped up in their culture.
Focus Point: Remember, every country has land--territory. Without land there is no country. If you were to study history, the land a people inhabits significantly influences the culture that develops. The desert dwellers, for instance, are unlikely to develop a maritime* culture unless they live along the coastline. Their culture will reflect the arid** environment in which they live.
*maritime: having to do with shipping and sailing; of the sea; on or near the sea.
**arid: having to do with very little rainfall; dry; unfruitful because of the lack of moisture; barren.
Focus Point: Another key component is the language of that country. A country is not a country unless it has one major language. Many nations of the world have numerous sub-languages and dialects. But every nation always decides on a major language because language identifies you as a country. Keep this in mind: Language is the key to unity. It is also a key factor in a nation's culture.
Focus Point: All countries have laws. Every nation draws up a body of laws that everyone must obey to ensure peace, order and the security for their citizens. Without laws there is no country because the absence of law leads to, most definitely, chaos. You can't run a country or maintain a stable government on chaos. The laws of a nation reflect the culture of that nation and vice versa. Just a serious note: culture and law each affect one another.
Focus Point: Every nation also utilizes specific unique symbols to represent it to help inspire unity, patriotism, loyalty, pride of nation, and a strong sense of national identity.
2. Culture is the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties by education, expert care and training.
3. Culture is the enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training.
4. Culture is the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
5. Culture is the customary beliefs, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious or social group.
6. Culture is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterize a company or corporation.
7. Culture means to grow in a prepared medium.
8. The battle for earth is the battle for culture.
Focus Point: Now what I have learned concerning culture. It encompasses many things. But once you understand the culture of a people, you will understand the people. Everything that makes a nation and its people is wrapped up in their culture.
Focus Point: Remember, every country has land--territory. Without land there is no country. If you were to study history, the land a people inhabits significantly influences the culture that develops. The desert dwellers, for instance, are unlikely to develop a maritime* culture unless they live along the coastline. Their culture will reflect the arid** environment in which they live.
*maritime: having to do with shipping and sailing; of the sea; on or near the sea.
**arid: having to do with very little rainfall; dry; unfruitful because of the lack of moisture; barren.
Focus Point: Another key component is the language of that country. A country is not a country unless it has one major language. Many nations of the world have numerous sub-languages and dialects. But every nation always decides on a major language because language identifies you as a country. Keep this in mind: Language is the key to unity. It is also a key factor in a nation's culture.
Focus Point: All countries have laws. Every nation draws up a body of laws that everyone must obey to ensure peace, order and the security for their citizens. Without laws there is no country because the absence of law leads to, most definitely, chaos. You can't run a country or maintain a stable government on chaos. The laws of a nation reflect the culture of that nation and vice versa. Just a serious note: culture and law each affect one another.
Focus Point: Every nation also utilizes specific unique symbols to represent it to help inspire unity, patriotism, loyalty, pride of nation, and a strong sense of national identity.
The most familiar symbol of any nation is its flag.
A nation's flag symbolizes its history, the sacrifices, suffering and triumphs
of its people; and what the people have constituted themselves to be.
All of these things relate also to culture.
A nation's flag symbolizes its history, the sacrifices, suffering and triumphs
of its people; and what the people have constituted themselves to be.
All of these things relate also to culture.
Focus Point: Now another element that all nations share in common is a constitution. In many ways a constitution is a cultural document because it contains in, codified form, the laws, ideals and values of the people (or of the King, depending on who wrote it)
Focus Point: Another element is, all nations have a moral code. Keep this in mind; that a nation's moral code embodies the moral standards under which the people have agreed to live and by which they have chosen to govern themselves. In most cases, a moral code consists of both written and unwritten standards. The written standards are expressed through laws and statutes while the unwritten standards are transmitted primarily through traditions, customs and culture. For example: Respect the other person's property; do not bear false witness in court; do not steal; do not murder; do not commit adultery; all of these are part of the moral code in virtually every nation and government on earth.
Question: From where do you think this code originated?
Focus Point: Another common characteristic of all countries is shared values. In order for a country to run effectively, the people must have shared values.
The people as a whole must agree that they all value the same thing, such as life or peace or freedom.
Focus Point: Here is another element to consider. Every nation develops its own customs. Customs derive from a nation's shared values. A custom is a customary way of doing something, a behavioral pattern that is not only commonly accepted but also expected.
Quite often a nation's customs are so distinctive that they become a point of identification for that nation, such as certain traditional manners of dress or kinds of foods.
Focus Point: Finally, there are social norms. Social norms are standards of speech, thought and behavior that are accepted by the wide majority of the people as right and proper.
If you violate a custom and you may be thought of as an eccentric*. Violate a social norm and you risk being ostracized.
*eccentric: not usual; odd; peculiar; a person who behaves in an unusual manner.
Focus Point: All of these together--land, language, laws, symbols, constitution, moral code, shared values, customs and social norms--comprise what we call culture.
Focus Point: Another element is, all nations have a moral code. Keep this in mind; that a nation's moral code embodies the moral standards under which the people have agreed to live and by which they have chosen to govern themselves. In most cases, a moral code consists of both written and unwritten standards. The written standards are expressed through laws and statutes while the unwritten standards are transmitted primarily through traditions, customs and culture. For example: Respect the other person's property; do not bear false witness in court; do not steal; do not murder; do not commit adultery; all of these are part of the moral code in virtually every nation and government on earth.
Question: From where do you think this code originated?
Focus Point: Another common characteristic of all countries is shared values. In order for a country to run effectively, the people must have shared values.
The people as a whole must agree that they all value the same thing, such as life or peace or freedom.
Focus Point: Here is another element to consider. Every nation develops its own customs. Customs derive from a nation's shared values. A custom is a customary way of doing something, a behavioral pattern that is not only commonly accepted but also expected.
Quite often a nation's customs are so distinctive that they become a point of identification for that nation, such as certain traditional manners of dress or kinds of foods.
Focus Point: Finally, there are social norms. Social norms are standards of speech, thought and behavior that are accepted by the wide majority of the people as right and proper.
If you violate a custom and you may be thought of as an eccentric*. Violate a social norm and you risk being ostracized.
*eccentric: not usual; odd; peculiar; a person who behaves in an unusual manner.
Focus Point: All of these together--land, language, laws, symbols, constitution, moral code, shared values, customs and social norms--comprise what we call culture.
