The word culture includes not only the customs of our society, its art, music, but also everyday activities.

文化这个词不仅包括我们社会的风俗、艺术、音乐，还包括日常活动。

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The colonized were able to maintain aspects of their local culture through different aural versions of the same written "word" because the common meaning existed only in the shape.

通过相同“文字”的不同的听觉译本，附属国成功保存了自己当地的文化面貌，因为共同的含意只存在于文字的形态中。

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For example, when an American USES the word "friend", the cultural implications of the word may be quite different from those it has in the visitor's language and culture.

例如，美国人嘴里所说的“朋友”一词所包含的文化内涵可能与旅行者母语和文化中的“朋友”涵义大相径庭。

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But it's a measure of the dominance of oral culture over the printed word both here and in the rest of Africa that Ivory Coast's leading book shop chain says it's only sold four thousand copies of Houphouet Boigny's Imaginary Plots.

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That includes the physical landscape of town and country, as well as interests, behaviors, values and beliefs -- culture in the broadest sense of the word, including our political culture.

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The Germanic culture that dominated most of northern Europe gave us the word yule, and the tradition of burning a yule log to ward off evil spirits.

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