Canari Culture Is Shared, Learned, Based On Symbols and Integrated

Canari Culture Is Shared, Learned, Based On Symbols and Integrated
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Introduction
Human beings in anthropology are known to be social creatures since the time of the Homo sapiens about 250,000 years ago. Due to their social nature, human beings have in turn grouped themselves together into communities for survival. The aspect of living together in a community has therefore seen related to the fact that people adopt different habits and behaviors that range from methods of childrearing to approaches of obtaining food. It is however imperative to note that virtually every human beings’ behavior that range from the expression of feelings to shopping is basically learnt. In Canada particularly, marriages are viewed as the choice between two mature people who base their union on the foundations of mutual feelings and love (Haviland & Fedorak, pp.46). This tends to vary in different cultures that view marriage as an arranged practice that involves an intricate process of negotiation between two families. Consequently, some cultures from other traditions such as the Kolkata families in India find marriage based on the ideology of love a perplexing practice. In other words, most human behaviors in different cultures are purely learnt. This paper seeks to conceptualize the manner in which culture is shared and learned based on symbols and integrations.
How culture is shared and learned based on symbols and Integrations
In understanding the manner in which culture is shared and learned based on symbols that are integrated, it is crucial to first have a view of the characteristics of culture. The 5 main features of culture include the following. Culture is dynamic, integrated, is anchored in symbols, is shared, and is learned. Culture is learned considering that it is not biological and certainly people do not inherit culture. The learning of culture is largely unconscious. A person learns culture from peers, the media, institutions, and the family. Even as every human being has fundamental biological needs like sex, sleep, and food, how they satisfy these needs differs across cultures. Culture’s characteristic of integration or being integrated is also referred to as holism; that is, the different components of a culture being interrelated. Every aspect of a culture is linked to other aspects. To understand a culture very well, one should not just learn about a few of its parts, but rather about all of its parts.
Considering the culture of Canari people, it is important to note that these people had a federative approach to dominion in leadership. According to Blankenship (2005), “each and every leader had an authority over individual tribes and during certain situations such as the occurrences of natural disasters or wars, the tribes would then unite and choose one of the leaders they believed”. It has been considered that some of these tribes were pegged on matriarchal societies that entailed a kingship system (pp. 43). When a person of the Inca tribe got married into such a powerful family, they would use marriage as a means of gaining power over the other tribes. This culture therefore transferred to others through the process of enculturation.
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