The word “culture” is thrown around liberally. It can mean work culture, pop culture, consumer culture, youth culture, etc. The word requires a different more nuanced perspective. The word is derived from Latin, and is brought to attention from Cicero, in Tusculanae disputationes. He speaks of something called, cultura animi, a culture of the soul. Thus, this term originates from Ancient Greece. It is not only a precise but an enlightening term. 

“Culture is a means of improving the human being, not merely physically, but spiritually; it therefore signifies a process, one in which deliberation, knowledge, experience, and awareness all play fundamental part. It implies a clear sense of value, a sense of high and low, founded on a clear sense of principle, of human perfection and human imperfection. It implies effort over long periods of time – not the work of a moment, but rather of seasons, years, decades, even lifetimes. It implicates reason on the one hand (the deliberation and consciousness which is demanded in such effort) and nature on the other (the peculiar quality and kind of the soul in question)”….