4.+Glossary

Artifacts: Personal possessions that hold a great deal of value to the person of group of people that own it. (Dictionary.com)

Culture: The ways people live, behave, act, value, brought about by one generation of people down to another in particular parts of the world relative to their original place of heritage. (Wikipedia, 2010)

Diverse: Of different kind, form, character. Different attitudes and behaviours may be shaped by where we live or our culture or cultural heritage. (Dictionary.com, 2010)

Heritage: Certain legacies of physical artifacts that are passed down by people or groups of people through generations of cultures. (Wikipedia, 2010)

Values: Values are an integral part of every culture, with worldview and personality, they generate behavior and actions. Being part of a culture that shares a common core set of values creates expectations and predictability without which a culture would disintegrate and its members would lose their personal identity and sense of worth. Values tell people what is good, beneficial, important, useful, beautiful, desirable, constructive...etc. They answer the question of why people do what they do. Values help people solve common human problems for survival. Over time, they become the roots of traditions that groups of people find important in their day-to-day lives. (Wikipedia, 2010)