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How would you define culture? When you think about the culture within which you live, ascribe to and practice perhaps you think abo ut your nationality, your ethnic background or religious affiliations to provide definition. You consider the language you speak, the events and milestones your honor, even the food that you eat – its preparation and composition. All of which speak to culture. A number of anthropologists have argued for a purely cognitive definition of culture. The idea is here that “culture” may be limited to the communicative and meaningful aspects of social life: from language to the meaning carried by symbols, persons, actions and events. This definition I particularly like by Geertz, a renown sociologist who refers to culture as “… a historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and a