Passage 2 Words 429 Minutes 5 The word “culture” has many different meanings . For example , we sometimes say that people who know about art , music , and literature are cultured . However , the word “culture” has a different meaning for anthropologists (人类学家)( people who study humankind ). To an anthropologist the word “culture” means all the ways in which a group of people act , dress , think , and feel . People have to learn the cultural ways of their community : they are not something that the people in the group are born with . Instinctive (本能) behavior , on the other hand , is a pattern of behavior that an animal is born with . Spiders spinning their webs are an example of instinctive behavior . The mother spider does not teach her babies how to spin webs .( In fact , she is not even there when they are born .) They know how to do it when they are born . This is what we mean by instinctive behavior . As humans , we learn some of the ways of our culture by being taught by our teachers or parents . We learn more of the ways of our culture by growing up in it . We see how other people in our culture do things , and we do them the same way . We even learn how to think and feel in this way . All human beings have certain basic needs , such as eating , drinking , keeping warm and dry . However , the way in which we take care of these needs depends on the culture in which we grow up . All cultures have ways of eating , drinking , dressing , finding shelter , marrying , and dealing with death . The foods that we think are good to eat , the kinds of clothes we wear , and how many people we can marry at one time are all parts of our culture . Our own culture seems very natural to us . We feel in our hearts that the way that we do things is the only right way to do them . Other people ’ s cultures often make us laugh or feel disgusted or shocked . We may laugh at clothing that seems ridiculous (可笑的) to us . Many people think that eating octopus (章鱼) or a juicy red piece of roast beef is disgusting . The idea that a man can have more than one wife or that brothers and sisters can marry each other may shock other cultures . These are just a few of the many different customs that are found in different cultures . Most of the time , the different ways that are the customs of different cultures are neither right nor wrong . It is simply that different people do the same things in different ways .