Abstract
Culture is a very complicated topic with more than a hundred probable definitions. Of the issues concerning cultural exchange, relations between national characters and modernity, dominant and dominated cultures, interpretation of different cultural thoughts and so on, all add further to the complexity of the topic. Having fully realized that any serious conclusion can be drawn only based on ample data through social investments, I am here merely to elaborate several crucial points that concern me most.
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Tang, Y. (2016). Several Crucial Points on Cultural Issues. In: Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1869-5_8
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