... universal and what can you say about the relationship of violence to history and culture? "Violence", if we go by dictionary meaning it seems to be one of the most misinterpreted words. Dictionary says violence is physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing and that is what society at large ... always imposed and hence is violent. So all rituals are violent. The rituals are integral part of a culture which as a heritage has been passed on to us. In the disguise of these rituals and cultural heritage the violence too gets communicated. Rituals bring one on th...

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... would have to define both the terms "culture" and "ethnic", and then try to put the two ideas together to see what happens. The Webster dictionary defines culture as: ..the total pattern of human behavior and artifacts and depending on man's capacity of learning and transmitting knowledge through the use of tools ... Can that culture survive the other drivers? This brings us to the need to look at ethnicity to see how it is defined and worked. The Websters Dictionary (2002) defines the term ethnic as: 2a: relating to community of physical and mental traits possessed by members of a grou...

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Introduction WHAT IS A GROUP? According to the American Heritage Dictionary of American Language ©, 4th edition copyright © by the Houghton Miflin company A group is a number of individuals or things considered together because of similarities. Another definition as defined by Organisational Behaviour ©, ... expected to have his own share of what to do in the group. It is normal that certain behaviour is expected with a specific role given. As defined in Merriam Webster's Dictionary © Merriam Webster Publishing © 1988 "Role - the actions and activities assigned to or required or expecte...

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