Formal Culture
- literary landmarks
- contents of museums
- music of ancestral groups
- art and dance
- holidays and parades
Deep Culture
- family ties and relationships
- friendships
- pride and self respect
- dictates of conscience
- milestones in personal life
Situational Culture
- inter- and intra-group relations
- well-known contemporary personalities
- social change awareness and recognizing change agents
- physical similarities and differences and perceptions
- diet: nutrition and rituals accompanying
Language and Communications
- preferred manner of speaking
- origins of the language and its elements
- people and place names
- gestures or postures
- current usage, colloquialisms
- games and entertainment
Humanistic Values
- forms of kindness, humor, self and other validation
- concepts of justice, fairness, competition and cooperation
- unselfishness, leadership
- concepts of human capability and potential
Historical Culture
- politicians, educators, artists, explorers, scholars, etc.
- events recorded and remembered
- ancestral contributions evidenced in contemporary life
- geography and its effects on ancestral group history
- origins of surnames
Source: “A Developmental and Sociological Rationale for Culture Based Curricula and Cultural Context Teaching,” by Josue González. (Unpublished dissertation, 1974).
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