Identity vs. Culture — What's the Difference?

The fact of being who or what a person or thing is

Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group.

A close similarity or affinity

The arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, and other products of human work and thought considered as a unit, especially with regard to a particular time or social group

A transformation that leaves an object unchanged.

These arts, beliefs, and other products considered with respect to a particular subject or mode of expression

The equality of two expressions for all values of the quantities expressed by letters, or an equation expressing this, e.g. (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1.

The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group or organization

The condition of being a certain person or thing

Mental refinement and sophisticated taste resulting from the appreciation of the arts and sciences

The set of characteristics by which a person or thing is definitively recognizable or known

Special training and development

The awareness that an individual or group has of being a distinct, persisting entity

The cultivation of soil; tillage

The fact or condition of being the same as something else

The breeding or cultivation of animals or plants for food, the improvement of stock, or other purposes.

The fact or condition of being associated or affiliated with something else

The growing of microorganisms, tissue cells, or other living matter in a specially prepared nutrient medium.

Information, such as an identification number, used to establish or prove a person's individuality, as in providing access to a credit account.

Such a growth or colony, as of bacteria.

An equation that is satisfied by any number that replaces the letter for which the equation is defined.

To cultivate (soil or plants).

Identity element.

To grow (microorganisms or other living matter) in a specially prepared nutrient medium.

Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.

To use (a substance) as a medium for culture

The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind, selfhood, sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themself.

The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.

A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.

The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.

(mathematics) An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.

The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.

Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.

(anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.

(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.

(botany) Cultivation.

A well-known or famous person.

(microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.

The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.

The growth thus produced.

The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.

A group of bacteria.

An identical equation.

(cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.

The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity;

(archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.

The individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known;

(euphemism) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)

An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates;

(transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth especially of bacteria cultivate}}

Exact sameness;

(transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest in something cultivate}}

The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.

The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.

The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular organisms) in artificial media or under artificial conditions.

Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels.

To cultivate; to educate.

A particular society at a particular time and place;

The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group

All the knowledge and values shared by a society

(biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar);

(bacteriology) the product of cultivating micro-organisms in a nutrient medium

A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality;

The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization;

The raising of plants or animals;