Character vs Culture
* Culture is societal whereas character is individualistic. Culture is the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society; Character is the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.
* Culture is an identity; Character is a quality.
Culture and Character are two terms that are normally used in the description of a human being. These two terms seem to have some difference between them though they appear to be same as far as the delineation of their meaning is concerned.
Culture is the result of a movement in a country. Thus people of the world are classified according to different cultures. Culture is a system of building identity. It is a process to live in a community. Culture is a factor that differs from group to group.
It is important to note that culture is influenced by many factors such as food habits, economy, faiths, religious beliefs, language and the like. In short it can be said that cultural growth can be estimated by community growth.
The mental and ethical traits that make a man is called character. It is to be remembered that we imbibe character not for others to see it. On the contrary character resides even when not seen.
Character is determined by our action of doing the right thing. Bad character is characterized by an action that is bad in nature. Good character is characterized by the performance of an action that is beneficial and good in nature.
It is quite interesting to note that everyone in the world is endowed with character. It has nothing to do with race or religion or even culture for that matter. Character is above everything including culture. It transcends education and sex too.
Sometimes the word character is used in the sense of a quality, especially a good quality. The usage goes as ‘He has character’. It means he has good qualities about him. Hence character is associated with anything that is good.
Recap:
The difference between character and culture:
Character is determined by our action of doing the right thing, whereas culture is a system of building identity.
The mental and ethical traits that make a man is called character, whereas everyone in the world is endowed with character. Character is beyond culture and race too. It is above everything including religion and sex for that matter.