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What do we mean when we talk about culture? UNESCO defines culture as “the distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group,” including art, literature and other creativity, as well as the ways we and our societies live together such as our languages, values, traditions, practices and beliefs. Culture is beauty and, as the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky said: “Beauty will save the world.”
As a policymaker, I would simplify and extend this definition to argue that culture is an identity card, like a passport, for a people. And, just like a passport, culture doesn’t just define who we are; it opens borders for us, allowing us to build bridges with other cultures, driving social and economic development as it does so.