’Truth,’ I there say, ’is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality. Pragmatists and intellectualists both accept this definition as a matter of course. (2) There is no single definition about the “truth”. Truth is construed differently by people. Its mean differs according to perception of the interpreter. There is one poet about the truth according to perception of the poet;
Truth is the Voice of Nature and of Time--
Truth is the startling monitor within us--
Naught is without it, it comes from the stars,
The golden sun, and every breeze that blows. . . .
--W. THOMPSON BACON
The poet claims that the truth comes from the nature and the truth should reflect humans’ behaviors without sin. For many, the truth is “beauty”. A thing that damages the beauty is a lie in the truth. Purity and originality should be stayed in the truth.
Culture is a powerful human tool, but it is a fragile phenomenon. It is constantly changing and easily lost because it exists only in our minds. Our languages, governments, buildings, and other man-made things are merely the products of culture. They are not culture in themselves. For this reason, people can’t expose culture directly in their excavations. Culture doesn’t have any written rule. It had occurred by people acting. It had had differences according to people living skills. So, it is different in different countries. It is passed to new generations by elder people. New generations learn it by experiencing. Firstly, they get it in family. When they meet others, their ways of seeing the world gets larger and they began to have different perspectives. In this situation, the truth of the different cultures has started to appear. Different cultures create their own truth according to their benefits which are interesting their trade, tourism, industry… etc. Aim of the all cultures is to spread their cultures through whole world and to make it known. During this aim, developing the country is expected. The truths of cultures are changing while their power of ruling the world is increasing.
An improved property of a culture is adopted by the other cultures, quickly. Every culture is presented in every country; however every culture does not adopt the other cultures. There is the problem about the cultural differences. For example, , mundane in the
United States seemed exotic when introduced into China. Chinese lifestyle and geography is not suitable for it because of their nutrition. Chinese nutrition is the tasty counterpart to Chinese herbology. The only significant difference between the two is that the nutrition tends to be more appetizing than the herbal tea formulas. However, American nutrition mostly is reliant to “fast foods”. Americans using of time and ways of the agriculture support to be nourished by meal. “To feed with fast foods” is the nutrition truth of Americans while Chinese’s is “to feed with natural foods”. Here comes the difference that the culture gives in terms of tastes. Something that can be found extremely delicious from a culture can be extremely disgusting, having it regarded by another culture. Duck feet are eaten continuously in Asiatic regions for example, no matter how excruciating it is to even think about it in western cultures. These extreme factors are not actually restricted with the cuisine of any countries either; it is not actually the taste which is disgusting. Anybody can eat anything and like or dislike it, for example. What culture is if you get disliked or if you like something after you hear the name.
“"Stimulus diffusion" refers to an element of one culture leading to an invention in another. theory presents a research-based model of why and when individuals and cultures adopt new ideas, practices, and products. Cultural change can come about due to the environment, to inventions and to contact with other cultures. For example, the end of the last helped lead to the invention of , which in its turn brought about many cultural innovations.”(3)
“A truth is that which can be accepted universally.” The truth should be considered universally. However the truth is separated for different branches. There is no truth for religions that humans can not be part of occurring it. Religion is an inexplicable part of the world. There are so many claims about the beginning of humanity; however any of them can not be proven because no one could experience it. These are just theories about it. As known, theories do not reflect the truths. And different cultures internalize the different opinions, religions, theories. Therefore, it is not accepted that the same truths are shown for the different cultures. In science and Math, the truth is assumed universally because they are discovered by humans and are the collective work of humans.
Humans prove the scientific theories as their mind can go far away. There are so many claims about science, too but unproven claims are not considered as scientific. Scientific arguments constitute the science truths and these are valid around the world. In short, there are two types of truth which are scientific and religious. Scientific truths should affect the whole world and should not have differences inside. However, religious truths do not have to cover all, because there is no a belief around the world. The conception of faith conflicts with science. And the all cultures conception of the faith does not match, so “Different cultures have different truths.”
References:
(1) http://www.carm.org/cults/truth.htm
(2) http://www.authorama.com/meaning-of-truth-1.html
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture#Cultural_change