Cultural code

According to cultural scientists, a cultural code is a set of characteristics that help identify a culture. For example, it is precisely the elements of the national cultural code that directors use to show that the location of the film is conditionally Paris. You will be shown a table for two with wine and baguette, the sunset will play with colors in the sky, and behind the scenes there will be music by Maurice Larkange. You don’t even need to see the Eiffel Tower to understand that the heroes will now either go for a walk along the Champs-Elysees or rob the Louvre.

Culturologists believe that the cultural code isn’t a finite value. It is made up of the past cultural experience of a society, information is collected, twisted and packaged into the final cultural product, like in a DNA molecule

In simple words, a cultural code is mentally encoded information, a set of unique characteristics of a people that they inherited from their ancestors and allows them to identify a specific culture.

We unconsciously adopt habits, roles and patterns through traditions, customs, everyday life, etc. This is what distinguishes one people from another, and forms the self-identification of each individual person in a specific cultural environment.

“One of the unresolved problems of the twentieth century is that we only have a vague and biased idea of ​​what exactly makes Japan the country of the Japanese, the USA the country of the Americans, France the country of the French, and Russia the country of the Russians... The lack of this knowledge hinders countries to understand each other."- Ruth Benedict. Chrysanthemum and the sword.