What exactly is the difference between a civilization and a culture?
And what exactly distinguishes a race from a civilization, or from a
culture?

Are there differing opinions about the differences?

What kinds of patterns show up when civilizations, cultures and races
are mapped out all together on the globe -- particularly over the span
of history?

Hi jsimmons-ga,

I must state that this is not a easy and simple question to answer. 
There is more to your question than just pages of definition.  This is
a very detailed question and I can only provide websites with
information  and various views along with books to obtain to assist
you in your detailed search.

race and ethnicity
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/race.html

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/biblio.htm

culture vs civilization
http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2873

A quote:
Thus, civilization presents a wave-like process: evolutional periods
(replication and reproduction of goods by means of conventional
technology and experience) alternate with revolutional ones (when a
certain technological burst takes place). Here the term “technological
burst” is applied not only to engineering and manufacturing but also
to culture, i.e. art, music and any other humane activity. So, in the
widest sense, the term “civilizing event ” seems to be more
appropriate than the “technological revolution” when applied to a
sharp rise of civilization upon a higher level.
Source:
CIVILIZING EVENTS AND CHRONOLOGY
Jaroslaw Kessler
http://www.revisedhistory.org/civilevents.htm

conquest of civilizaton
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/22/004.html

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/introduction/woi_history.html

civilization and culture
http://home.debitel.net/user/RMittelstaedt/Media/CiviCult.htm

http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_6/katzvol6.htm
http://ignca.nic.in/cd_05006.htm

culture
http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/HKPC/cultural_identity.html
http://www.aish.com/societyWork/society/WORLD_PERFECT_The_Jewish_Impact_on_Civilization.asp

Culture. The conscious and unconscious ways of life of a people,
including attitudes, values, behavior, and material things.
Source:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/iasa/diversity.html
http://www.angelfire.com/hi4/loveandpeace/linkgroup.html
what is culture
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html



culture and nationality
http://www.civ3.com/faq5.cfm


http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/adivasi.html


civilization and modernization
http://www.loanufind.com/machine.html


race and civilization
http://www.seek-info.com/race.htm
http://www.creator.org/books/race/tyc/tyc-02.html



race demography
http://www.race-democracy.org/study.html

books
http://www.stormfront.org/truth_at_last/books/The-Origin-of-Race.htm
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/africanworld/086543896x.html
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s95/lyman.html
http://www.houseofnubian.com/IBS/SimpleCat/Product/asp/product-id/617305.html

civilization and modernization
http://www.loanufind.com/machine.html



Hope this helps.

Best regards


jeanwil-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by jsimmons-ga on 17 Feb 2003 00:27 PST

Would any of these links -- or any others -- assist me in creating a
map that shows boundaries of the different civilizations, cultures and
races? (Or perhaps a "gravity map" of them -- showing areas at
different levels of intensity?) I'm very interested in exploring the
"wave-like process," as you mentioned, visually on a globe and even
animated over time. I'm picturing in my head area-shapes on the
surface of a sphere constantly changing shape much like the blobs in a
LavaLamp(TM).

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Clarification of Answer by jeanwil-ga on 17 Feb 2003 17:16 PST

Hi jsimmons-ga,

I did some more research and came up with the websites listed below

http://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/Dikotter.html
http://www.truthinhistory.org/culturalwar.htm
http://www.musewhispers.com/sample.asp
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/sf20021024.shtml
http://www.urantia.org/papers/paper81.html
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/CASAS/pdfpapers/racecult.pdf


Hope this helps.

Best Regards


jeanwil-ga

Dear jsimmons,

To answer the first part of your question in brief...

- "Civilization" includes automobiles, refrigerators, cities,
construction etc. Everything that needs technical skills and
organization.

- "Culture" is Shakespeare, Goethe, Moliere, Homer, Augustinus of
Hippo, etc. All things of education and intellect, including religion
and philosophy.

- "Race" is biology and in no way connected to the cultural or
civilizational potential. Actually, "race" is of no particular
interest for the development of "culture" and "civilization".

Regards,
Scriptor

Scriptor,

There's an element of conscience and correctness in your overview.
Much appreciated.

But if race should not be connected to cultural or civilizational
potential, then why do we celebrate Black History Month, Asian Pacific
American Heritage Month, and American Indian Heritage Month? It seems
these celebrations of heritage do link race with culture. (In the case
of American Indians, our American government  defines American Indians
biologically -- according to strict Indian blood quantum level
requirements.)

Or is Heritage yet another term that is clearly distinct from the
others? The wording of the Presidential Proclamations for these
Heritage Months does not seem to make a distinction.

jsimmons

Some comments and rhetorical questions to consider:

Race and ethnicity have the biological component. Someone from any
race can speak any language, be part of any culture or "civilization".

Culture is the generally accepted norms, mores, arts, education, laws,
societal structure of a group of people living within a community.
Culture varies widely along ethnicity, region and people. Even within
a community there are many subcultures.

It seems to me the term "civilization" is typically applied in an
Eurocentric context to describe a cultural lifestyle similar to a
Western ideal. I believe every culture in the world, small or large,
that lives in a community, rears children and labors to support
themselves is a civilization.

And what role does language play?

Native American people in the U.S. today speak over 200 distinct
Native languages.  Our cultures are different from each other and yet
there are many similarities because of interaction with each other
over history.  Native culture has also changed dramatically over the
last 500 years due to interaction with European culture as people
immigrated here and settled.

Is Europe one culture or many? On one hand I consider it all part of
Western culture, but on the other hand there are many European
peoples, languages and, I would say, cultures.

Paul Kabotie
http://www.nativeart.net