The concept that will occupy us next is closely associated with the context of culture.
Form of expression manifested by members of a community
For example, culture designates A set of ways of living and of uses and customs that predominate in a given period and within a social group, putting it in simpler words, is about the various ways in which a given community expresses itself, then, how they speak, how they express themselves. they dress, what they do, how they behave, among other issues, are elements inherent to the culture.
For its part, the word urban designates that which belongs to or is linked to the city, to life in the city.
Therefore, if we combine both references and merge them into a concept, we find that urban culture consists of the way of expression presented by individuals who develop in a certain city.
The art, music, clothing and the way of life that people who live in this or that city show will be expressions of urban culture.
Now, in all this, the physical form of the city in question has a fundamental role and a direct relationship with the urban culture that will develop.
It should be noted then that urban culture is rather chosen, delineated, by people based on the way of living, the context in which they grow and develop, being for example rather free and is in no way contaminated by what thinks or establishes the government of the day or the influential figures.
Culture is contagious with the good and the bad ...
In addition, within urban culture we cannot not contemplate individual behaviors that impact on the collective and end up contagious, that is, attitudes or actions that are developed individually but that the majority repeat and repeat.
Within this group of behaviors we can include positive and negative behaviors.
The latter obviously have a disastrous impact on progress and on the consideration of the culture of that society and can even be considered as low-culture if negative customs proliferate in the majority.
For example, the dirt on the public road that is not the product of the lack of cleanliness by the public hygiene area of the city in question but of the irresponsible actions in this sense of the inhabitants who throw away the papers and any other waste in the in the middle of the street and not in the baskets intended for this purpose.
Undoubtedly, when in a city it is appreciated that the majority observe this behavior, we will be faced with a cultural problem that no longer has to do with a single person who is indolent or dirty, but with a corporate action that has a negative impact in every sense and level in that society, in respect for others, for common spaces, and not to mention the planet, which suffers with such disregard.
In another vein, an unavoidable issue on this issue is the great physical extension proposed by large cities and which is considered to encourage the links between people to be much less direct if we compare it with rural culture, of the countryside, in where almost all the inhabitants know each other, greet each other, that is, they interact more regularly.
In any case, this does not imply that in the city strong ties are also woven between the most diverse elements and that elements of expression are generated that have many common characteristics.
Urban tribes: minority groups that meet in cities to share their same interests
Also within urban culture appear the so-called urban tribes that are minority groups within macro culture that are made up of individuals who respond to the same interests, tastes, ideas, among others, in terms of music, clothing, political ideology, among so many others.
The objective of these people with shared interests that do not combine with those of the majority is usually to get together to share and enjoy them together and they even usually choose public meeting spaces in which they meet periodically to express themselves, to exchange ideas and Any type of proposal that it is associated with is a shared interest.
