According to <span>Richard Dawkins, culture is a population of memes which are just "copy me" programs.
Just as genes reproducing themselves, memes are actions, behaviors, units of culture that are replicated through language or observation.
This way of describing culture has some important ramifications:
first, culture is not a way of thinking that a certain population share, but in opposition is something we have in common with people with our same culture;
second, where an individual experiment some degree of conflict between the cultural norms and its belief, this conflict is not caused by an external force but instead is a conflict that is taking place in their heads;
third, if you view culture as a similarity between people, like brown hair, it is much easier to remember that perspective matters;
lastly, this way of viewing culture gives us a measurable way of thinking about how culture is spread among different individuals.
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Answer: The word “mesopotamia” is formed from the ancient words “meso,” meaning between or in the middle of, and “potamos,” meaning river. Situated in the fertile valleys between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the region is now home to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey and Syria. Map of Mesopotamia.
One factor is that most European nations were just too poor after the war to carry the huge expenses of maintaining their colonies. Another is that many colonies were acquired strictly for strategic reasons, like coaling or controlling certain maritime trading routes, and they were simply no longer needed.
The tokugawa shoguns created the government called "the tokugawa period"
