1. Why is culture an adaptive mechanism? Culture is considered an adaptive mechanism because it provides behavioral models, strategies and techniques aimed at helping people adapt to a particular environment. The goal of every living being is survival. While plants and animals adapt genetically to their environment, for humans the most important adaptation mechanism is culture. In Madagascar, for example, trees have adapted to the drier climate by shedding excess leaves during the dry winter to limit evaporation. Humans, on the other hand, cannot adapt their bodies to very cold or very hot climates and need cultural and technological knowledge to survive where they live. While the polar bear, in its evolutionary process, managed to genetically adapt to the Arctic climate (by growing thick fur and a layer of fat under it), our ancestors adapted to cold climates thanks to their culture of hunters -binders. Plains Indians, for example, primarily hunted wild American buffalo and used them for food, tools, clothing, and shelter. Their survival depended mainly on buffalo. The buffalo was not just an animal to be hunted, but a cultural symbol revered and protected by the Pains Indians. Buffalo culture, passed down from generation to generation, was the Plains Indians' adaptation strategy to the environment in which they lived. When the buffalo became an endangered species, the Plains Indians were forced to change their entire pattern of life. And their culture changed with them. Culture for our species has been (and still is) a complex, questionable and yet rewarding mechanism learned, shared and modified according to our needs, consciously or unconsciously.2. Why do we learn culture? Culture is, as d...... at the center of the card......and is given to dinner guests as "hospitality tokens". It's impolite and impolite to ask for juicy, delicious fish meat when you have the fish's eyes (and the eyes of all the people in the restaurant) staring at you in (and in) your soup! Cultural knowledge (what you know about a particular country) and cultural awareness (the ability to be aware of your own culture and that of others) are essential skills for understanding a different culture. It is essential to explore another culture as an observer, as an anthropologist in his first research work. In Miami I spend much of my day inside unfamiliar stores – Target, Walmart, Marshall – looking at people, clothes, labels and items; learn rather than judge. In those stores I experienced another culture for the first time as an observer, transcending cultural boundaries and embracing diversity.