Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care
Interpretation
Culture is a deep, intrinsic part of who we are and how we interact with the world.
Edgar Schein's quote suggests that culture goes beyond superficial elements and is fundamental to our identity and actions. It reflects how deeply embedded our cultural values, beliefs, and practices are in our everyday lives, influencing our behaviors and interactions on a profound level.
In practice
A corporate retreat where the importance of fostering a strong company culture is discussed.
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.
The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them.
Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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