Culture is an inexcapable part of everyday life. Everyone in this world is affected by it. Culture serves as a sort of universal glue that binds each one of us to our past, present, & future. It is this concept that we try to explore in this site. Welcome to CultureCentric.com.

• Western Culture

Western culture refers to the culture that has developed in the Western world. It refers to the heritage of norms, values, customs and sometimes artifacts that the cultures of the Western world share. A Western culture refers to one of many cultures in the Western world.

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In the western culture buisness is a very important aspect of day to day life. From marketing their products to helping employees do a greater job at customer service business impacts the average citizen and consumer everyday.

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The Western world is a group of countries and cultures of which the composition depends on the definition used. See Western world for an overview of these definitions.

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The concept of Western culture is generally linked to the classical definition of Western world. In this definition, Western culture is the set of literary, musical, philosophical and other traditions from Western Europe and countries whose history is strongly marked by Western European immigration or settlement...more>>

• Generation Y

Generation Y (occasionally written as Generation Why?) - along with Echo Boom, Byte Block, Internet Generation, South Park Generation, and Millennial Generation - is a name used in demographics to describe a particular generational cohort in Western societies, specifically the United States. The cohort comprises those born in the late 20th Century, especially the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, although no consensus has emerged specifying exact dates, which has made matters difficult and confusing for many people. Proposed start dates range from 1977 to 1985, and proposed end dates range from 1994 to 2002, making only 10 years (1985 - 1994) out of the maximum 25-year threshold (1977 - 2002) definitely Generation Y. The typical dates, though, are usually roughly 1977 to about 1993/1994.

The inherent similarities between Generation Y and its predessessor, Generation X, have led many to view Gen-Y as a mere protraction of Gen-X, going as far as to question the existence of two separate generational classifications. There are, however, very important differences between the generations, including (but not limited to) the age at which modern technology was introduced to members of each generation...more>>

• Alternative Culture

Alternative culture is a catch-all phrase used predominately by the media and, to a lesser extent, the marketing industry to refer to a variety of separate sub-cultures – (which are either loosely related or near-totally unrelated) – and are perceived by the general public as being outside or on the fringes of so-called accepted mainstream culture. There is a popular yet mistaken belief that the term refers to a singular "alternative culture". Yet whilst the inappropriate use of the term by the media has made this concept common, the actual differences between the various sub-cultures are such that many of them are incompatible with each other or show no logical connection which would give credibility to the idea that there is a single alternative culture.

A true definition of alternative culture is thus debatable and often a sub-culture is mistaken for being an alternative one when it may not truly be such. The criterea used in defining a sub-culture as being an alternative one vary greatly. For these reasons, this article should be seen to be about established media views and what truths went into them and how these views, the assimilation of the mentioned sub-cultures into the mainstream and the commercialisation of them effected those involved in each sub-culture...more>>

• Spotlight on the Press: Newspapers & Magazines

A newspaper is a publication containing news and information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. It may be general or special interest, most often published daily or weekly. The first printed newspaper was published in 1605.

The newspaper industry survived competition from 20th-century technologies, especially radio and television, but 21st-century developments on the Internet are posing major threats.

General-interest newspapers are usually journals of current news. Those can include political events, crime, business, sports, and opinions (either editorials, columns, or political cartoons). Many also include weather news and forecasts. Newspapers use photographs to illustrate stories; use editorial cartoonists, usually to illustrate writing that is opinion, rather than news; and also often include comic strips and other entertainment, such as crosswords and horoscopes.

The future of newspapers is cloudy, with overall readership slowly declining in most developed countries due to increasing competition from television and the Internet. The 57th annual World Newspaper Congress, held in Istanbul in June 2004, reported circulation increases in only 35 of 208 countries studied. Most of the increase came in developing countries, notably China.

A report at the gathering indicated that China tops total newspaper circulation, with more than 85 million copies of papers sold every day, followed by India with 72 million—China and India are the two most populous countries in the world—followed by Japan with 70 million and the United States with 55 million. The report said circulation declined by an average of 2.2 percent across 13 of the 15 countries that made up the European Union before May 1. The biggest declines were in Ireland, down 7.8 percent; Britain, down 4.7 percent; and Portugal, where numbers fell by 4.0 percent. One growth area is the distribution of free newspapers, which are not reflected in the above circulation data. Led by the Metro chain of newspapers, they grew 16 percent in 2003.

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