It is a main priority for me as Culture Minister to make sure children can surf the net safely at libraries ,' states Brian Mikkelsen in a press-release of the Danish Ministry of Culture.

Possibly, the most profound example of extraordinarily prolonged dissociative fugue can be found in Iain Banks ' the Culture series novels, where " the perfect mercenary " Cheradenine Zakalwe persists in such a state for more than a millennium, including almost one hundred lifetimes in simulated environments.

Many examples can be seen at an annual competition hosted by the All Japan Swordsmith Association, under the auspices of the Nihontō Bunka Shinkō Kyōkai ( Society for the promotion of Japanese Sword Culture ).

According to the Nevis Department of Culture, the aim is to protect and encourage indigenous folklore, in order to make sure that the uniquely Caribbean culture can " reassert itself and flourish ".

Culture and ethnicity provide an environment where trust and communication between criminals can be efficient and secure.

A subsequent Culture novel Look to Windward ( 2000 ), whose title comes from the previous line of the same poem, can be considered a loose follow-up.

All Culture citizens can communicate in this variant.

It has been argued within the novels by opponents of the Culture that the role of humans in the Culture is nothing more than that of pets, or parasites on Culture Minds, and that they can have nothing genuinely useful to contribute to a society where science is close to omniscient about the physical universe, where every ailment has been cured, and where every thought can be read.

On the other hand, the Culture can be seen as fundamentally hedonistic ( one of the main objectives for any being, including Minds, is to have fun rather than to be ' useful ').

Techniques in genetics have advanced in the Culture to the point where bodies can be freed from built-in limitations.

Citizens of the Culture refer to a normal human as " human-basic " and the vast majority opt for significant enhancements ; severed limbs grow back, sexual physiology can be voluntarily changed from male to female and back ( though the process itself takes time ), sexual stimulation and endurance are strongly heightened in both sexes ( something that is often subject of envious debate among other species ), pain can be switched off, toxins can be bypassed away from the digestive system, automatic functions such as breathing or heart rate can be switched to conscious control, and bones and muscles adapt quickly to changes in gravity without the need to exercise.

Some Culture citizens opt to leave the constraints of a human or even humanoid body altogether, opting to take on the appearance of one of the myriad of other galactic sentients ( perhaps in order to live with them ) or even non-sentient objects as commented upon in Matter ( though this process can be irreversible if the desired form is too removed from the structure of the human brain ).

* Culture clashes can destroy value.

They can basically be divided into sports clubs and “ Arts and Culture ” clubs.

This critical turn in sociocultural anthropology during the mid-1980s can, in large part, can be traced to the influence of the now classic ( and often contested ) text, Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, ( 1986 ) edited by James Clifford and George Marcus.

Due to economic downturn Golden State was forced to sell their entire art collection to ward off its mounting debts and as of spring 2011 the National Museum of African American History and Culture had offered $ 750, 000 to purchase the artworks which led to a controversy regarding the importance of the artworks which have been estimated to be worth at least $ 5 million.

Some Culture Ministers of the states, especially in Prussia, decided, that the Sedantag would be an official festival in schools.

However, as Kwanzaa gained mainstream adherents, Karenga altered his position so that practicing Christians would not be alienated, then stating in the 1997 Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture, " Kwanzaa was not created to give people an alternative to their own religion or religious holiday.

Using first-hand remarks ( which would later be published in Philosophical Investigations, Culture and Value, and other works ), philosophers such as Peter Winch and Norman Malcolm developed what has come to be known as contemplative philosophy, a Wittgensteinian school of thought rooted in the " Swansea tradition " and which includes Wittgensteinians such as Rush Rhees, Peter Winch and D. Z. Phillips, among others.

* City of Culture of Galicia ( will be completed in 2012 ), designed by Peter Eisenman

The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture theorizes that Sleipnir's eight legs may be the remnants of horse-associated divine twins found in Indo-European cultures and ultimately stemming from Proto-Indo-European religion.

The move may be too slow: in June 2010, Court ordered the eviction of Paris older artist's squat, a renowned place for close-to-free concerts ( 5, 000 groups in 10 years, from all countries ), and where the state-owned Culture TV-channel ARTE itself went to record live sessions: and there was nothing the mayor could do, the tenant being a private investor.

In the 1961 decision, Justice Hugo Black commented in a footnote, " Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.

Films may be shown in theaters in France only after classification by an administrative commission of the ministry of Culture.

In 2007 the Turkish Ministry of Culture gave permission for the Divine Liturgy to be celebrated in the church for the first time in centuries.

In 1907, Cavell was recruited by Dr. Antoine Depage to be matron of a newly established nursing school by the name of L ' École Belge d ’ Infirmières Diplômées on the Rue de la Culture in Brussels.

# Culture clashes within the two companies causes employees to be less-efficient or despondent

Designed to be represented either in binary or symbol-written form, Marain is also regarded as an aesthetically pleasing language by the Culture.

Many of these concepts would in fact be somewhat theoretical to the average Culture citizen.

That said, M32 has an air of notoriety in the Culture, and in the thoughts of most may best be articulated as " the Unbreakable, Inviolable, Holy of Holies Special Circumstances M32 " as described by prospective SC agent Ulver Seich.

As mentioned in The Player of Games, the Culture does have the occasional " crime of passion " ( as described by an Azadian ) and the punishment was to be " slap-droned ", or to have a drone assigned to follow the offender and " make sure don't do it again ".

At one point it is said that if the Culture actually had written laws, the sanctity of one's own thoughts against the intrusion of others would be the first on the books.

This gives some measure of privacy and protection ; though the very nature of Culture society would, strictly speaking, make keeping secrets irrelevant: most of them would be considered neither shameful nor criminal.

The standardized form of Austrian German for official texts and schools is defined by the Austrian Dictionary (), published under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

The term was taken and redefined by the anthropologist Sir Edward Tylor in his 1871 book Primitive Culture, in which he defined it as " the general doctrine of souls and other spiritual beings in general.

Georg Lukács, minister of Culture in the brief Béla Kun government of the Hungarian Soviet Republic ( 1919 ), published History and Class Consciousness ( 1923 ), which defined dialectical materialism as the knowledge of society as a whole, knowledge which, in itself, was immediately the class consciousness of the proletariat.

Fundamentalism is defined by historian George M. Marsden in his seminal work Fundamentalism and American Culture as " militant anti-modernist Protestant evangelicalism.

The initial stages of the war were defined by a hasty withdrawal of the Culture from vast galactic spaces invaded by the Idirans, who tried to inflict as many civilian casualties as possible in the hope of making the Culture sue for peace.

* In the " Role Culture " authorities are delegated as such within a highly defined structure.

Late Copper Age 1 was defined in Southern Germany by the connection of the late Cham Culture, Globular Amphora Culture and the older Corded Ware Culture of " beaker group 1 " that is also referred to as Horizon A or Step A.

In his works Primitive Culture and Anthropology, he defined the context of the scientific study of anthropology, based on the evolutionary theories of Charles Lyell.

Further, Spengler asserts that not only is pre-Cultural man without history, he loses his historical weight as his Culture becomes exhausted and becomes a more and more defined Civilization.

Levy describes the people, the machines, and the events that defined the Hacker Culture and the Hacker Ethic, from the early mainframe hackers at MIT, to the self-made hardware hackers and game hackers.

Culture must be seen at the root of politics because people have become focused on the modern culture that Jameson defined ( Nash, 82 ).

Culture is defined by Ebbutt ( 1998, p. 416 ) as a “ constellation of both written and unwritten expectations, values, norms, rules, laws, artifacts, rituals and behaviors that permeate a society and influence how people behave socially ”.

In 2009, Entertainment Weekly ranked Ripley 5th on their list of The 20 All Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture, calling her " one of the first female movie characters who isn't defined by the men around her, or by her relationship to them ".

The library is defined as an independent higher education institution under the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture which commissions the library board, consisting of seven members, and the National Librarian.

Arnold defined culture as " the disinterested endeavour after man's perfection " ( Preface ) and most famously wrote that having culture meant to " know the best that has been said and thought in the world "— a specifically literary definition, also embracing Philosophy, which is now rather less likely to be considered an essential component of High Culture, at least in the English-speaking cultures.

The Malaysian government has taken the step of defining Malaysian Culture through the " 1971 National Culture Policy ", which defined what was considered official culture, basing it around Malay culture and integrating Islamic influences.

The Malaysian government defined Malaysian culture through the issuance of the " 1971 National Culture Policy ".