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What are the four dimensions of culture?

Physical culture, institutional culture, behavioral culture, and mental culture.

1. The physical culture layer, consisting of materialized intellectual power, is the sum of human material production activities and their products, which are perceptible cultural things with material entities.

2. Institutional culture layer, composed of various social norms established by human beings in social practice. Including socio-economic system marriage system, family system, political and legal system, family, nation, state, economy, politics, religious associations, education, science and technology, art organizations.

3. Behavioral culture layer, in the form of folklore and folk customs, seen in the daily life and action, with distinctive national and regional characteristics.

4. The cultural layer of mentality is composed of the values, aesthetic interests and ways of thinking that have been formed over a long period of time in the social practice and conscious activities of human beings, and it is the core part of culture.

Expanded information:

1, the social role of culture

Culture as a kind of Spiritual power, can be transformed into material power in the process of people's understanding of the world, the transformation of the world, and have a profound impact on social development. This influence is not only manifested in the course of personal growth, but also in the history of the nation and the country. The advanced and healthy culture has a great promotion effect on the development of the society; the reactionary and decadent culture plays a major role in hindering the development of the society.

2. The Role of Culture in Comprehensive National Power

In today's world, the competition for comprehensive national power among countries is becoming increasingly fierce. The position and role of culture in the competition for comprehensive national power is becoming more and more prominent. The power of culture is y embedded in the vitality, creativity and cohesion of the nation and has become an important symbol of comprehensive national power

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