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1 The subject is culture and the two kinds of it - material, which is to do with technology and science, such as genetics, and non-material, which is basically what we think about it, our beliefs and so forth. The speaker2 In comparing material with non-material culture - the first being the objects and technologies we create, and the second our customs, beliefs and attitudes - the speaker gives greater emphasis to the material culture. He gives the example of the development of genetic science and the benefits it has brought to mankind, despite a fair amount of opposition. 3 For the purposes of argument, culture is divided into material and non-material, and the speaker3 For the purposes of argument, culture is divided into material and non-material, and the speakerX
The speaker says: I want
to take a quick look at how material culture ... affects the non-material
culture, our customs, behavior, beliefs, attitudes, and so on. Now, of course,
it works both ways ... Take, for example, genetic science. While many, if not
most, people welcome the advances made in this field ... many, too, object to
the idea of cloning.
