If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life... The rift is... between "folk" culture, where the unschooled can be wise, and print culture, which enslaved the other senses to the eye.

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When the Victorians wrote about cultural differences between Europeans and Americans, they were describing two very different lifestyles. People in England and France lived differently than people in the United States. The Victorians believed that English and French culture could make you wise, but American culture would make you stupid.

Source: Culture And History

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