Anthropologists most commonly use the term "culture" to refer to the universal human capacity to classify, codify and communicate their experiences symbolically.  It is the way we cook our food, the way we dress, the music we listen to, it is the blueprint that shapes the way we see the world.  It has different meanings in different aspecks of our lives; hence we can talk about a Hip Hop culture, a Hindu culture, corporate culture, a gang culture etc. etc.

 As subjective individuals, we tend to identify with different collective cultures because of our different experiences and collective popular reference points.  Therefore the fact that we have cultural differences as people is only proof of differences in our collective human experiences and subjective global exposure not some predestined “order of things”.  The low down is this: being multi-cultural is simply the result of a lifestyle of seeking out new experiences and ideas.  When it gets down to it, we're all multi-cultural.

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