What is culture? As defined by the textbook Anthropology: The Human Challenge, culture is, "society's shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior" (Haviland 8). As applied to humans then, culture is expressed and measured in our abilities to learn, analyze, teach, individually evolve, and grow in intellect and preference. Human cultures,...