Culture is said to be the total way of Life of People in any given Society. In other word, it's the totality of socially transmitted behaviour patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.

Although, Civilisation is a sometimes controversial, but in a classical context, people were called "civilized" to set them apart from the Primitive Peoples.

Arguably, we need to learn, re-learn and un-learn some traits we came across @ our early lives. I'd even seen people taking Pap, Rice etc with their bare hand. I stopped to take those foods with bare hand very early in my Uni. days because(among other reasons) it wasn't just comfortable.

How would you deal with a Plate of Pounded Yam/Apu and a Okro/Gbegiri Soup(in a gathering); with your bare hand or with cutlery? What about the Soup? 'Scoop with same hand'?