What is culture?

Culture, as defined on the Cambridge Dictionary website, is "the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs of a particular group of people at a particular time".

- Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs 

Within my EPQ, I plan to explore novels, plays and poems taught within the education system, both past and present, and look at the cultures within them.

I believe that, in the UK, we should be taught about other people's culture, instead of focusing solely on the Western culture, to allow us to be more well educated about the rest of the world. I think that this is not currently happening and we are, in fact, becoming more ignorant to what is happening in other cultures/places from the United Kingdom or the USA.

Through looking at and learning more about cultures of others, we become "more open-minded, tolerant and global" (Samir El A. Morocco: in the video from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs). Varying cultures need to be displayed not only within novels, but through TV and film, however I think we need to start with the education system to allow the new generation to learn more on the world and other people.