Culture is the way of life for people who share similar beliefs and customs.
The wants needs or beliefs that cause an author to act a certain way vary. These are driving factors in a book.
A person's way of life.
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No. Superstitions are not scientific in any way whatsoever.
A preset of beliefs could alter a way a person can communicate freely. When someone is really religious or has strong beliefs about anything it could leave them with bias on certain topics.
The definition of cultural differences would be the way the different cultures live, their beliefs, what they eat, their religious beliefs and so forth.
A renegade society is a community that abandons their way of thinking or beliefs for another set of beliefs. Usually, this group is abandoning their government's ideas.
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The Huguenots were the French protestants. The Jesuits were formed primarily to combat the protestant heresy. I don't know where you got this idea, but some of the stuff on the web for Huguenots and Jesuits suggest that the two were bitter enemies, and that the Huguenots were responsible in some way for the suppression of the Jesuits. Either way, there is no way that the Jesuits ever combined Catholic beliefs with protestant beliefs - that would give a lie to their whole reason for existing.
The beliefs and ideals that guide how people live are learned from the culture in which they grew up. They are also a product of their experiences and personality.
Self-concept I best defined as our beliefs about who we are as an individual and the role we play in society. The way we communicate with the world around us serves as reflection of those beliefs. By altering the way we communicate, we can not only improve the way we come across people, but change the way we view ourselves.