I will try to define the concept Culture under the notion persistence, broadening them to a point
well enough for understanding. According to J. G Herger, each culture is different and has its own
system of meaning & value and cannot be ranked on any universal scale. Culture informs the
thought and activities of its members in oodles. It is a myriad of human activity that is socially
rather than mentally transmitted. It is a system of “meaning & value” and it cannot be measured
on any universal scale, not civilization or colonialism. It is simply a way of life.
While Khalil(2004:137) began his beautiful definition of culture with a visual & positive assumption
that I can assume we all have an idea about, his words were “devoid of any definition of western
scholars & sociologists, everyone agrees that culture is a way of life of any group of people,
including the beliefs, morals, language political organization & economic activity as well as their
equipment, technique, art form & literature”. This culture is encompassing, covering the entirety
of people’s existence. It covers every societal organization or preference.
But Culture has been subjected to slow terrestrial vanity & tranquility; subtle relationships made
to console the loss of its beauty. “Civilization” has deprived ecology of crude, original knowledge,
ideas, transferred from our ancestral understanding down to a generation, repugnant, with few
dilettante souls.
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Now on Colonialism, I must warn you my ideas are contaminated with truth, neo-liberalism, hope,
renewal and revival. There is a sparse but vivid line between ancient, crude, norm and modern,
refined and habit, and culture can be defined as either or more of these characteristics. On a
visual & archaeological thought scale, there is evidence that societies have been living in Nigeria
for more than 23 hundred years ago, but the borders of the modern Nigeria was not created
until the British consolidated their power over the area in 1914. Yes colonialism opened doors to
broader horizon and parted way to development birthed upon the solid soul, but like Herger said
“..cannot be ranked on any universal scale”. Societal humanism cannot be seen as a threat to
modern civilization.
Yes, modern tradition paved ways to a society, but our culture; the way we greet, think, marry,
dress, even our upbringing, the way we die and are buried can be negatively impacted on if there
is an intrusion. So yes, Modernity conquers the idealism of a noble ethnicity. Languages and