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-	There are two contradictory views of culture. The first holds that culture is the ''very best'' (see perfection) that a society produces, the second holds that culture is ''everything'' a society produces, even ordinary and ugly phenomena. In my opinion, both views are right. But at the extreme ends, both [[high art|high culture]] and low culture are minority cultures; the combined influences and the cross fertilization of both 'high' and 'low' (or Dionysian and Apollonian) strains constitute [[popular culture|mainstream]] culture. In this sense, mainstream culture equals culture.	+	{{Template}}
		+	:There are two contradictory views of culture. The first holds that culture is the ''very best'' (see perfection) that a society produces, the second holds that culture is ''everything'' a society produces, even ordinary and ugly phenomena. In my opinion, both views are right. But at the extreme ends, both [[high art|high culture]] and low culture are minority cultures; the combined influences and the cross fertilization of both 'high' and 'low' (or Dionysian and Apollonian) strains constitute [[popular culture|mainstream]] culture. In this sense, mainstream culture equals culture.

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There are two contradictory views of culture. The first holds that culture is the very best (see perfection) that a society produces, the second holds that culture is everything a society produces, even ordinary and ugly phenomena. In my opinion, both views are right. But at the extreme ends, both high culture and low culture are minority cultures; the combined influences and the cross fertilization of both 'high' and 'low' (or Dionysian and Apollonian) strains constitute mainstream culture. In this sense, mainstream culture equals culture.