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C# uses the concept of Culture. Is this operationally similar to Locale in Java or are there significant differences in the underlying concepts?
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Cultural knowledge is often described in terms of “little c” culture, comprised of cultural beliefs, behaviors, and values, and “big C” culture, such as literature, art, and institutions. Students most often identify cultural learning with “big C” culture, which is a small part of the whole picture (Herron 2000).
The most common specific topic referring to culture with a big 'C' was literature, followed by education and institutions, while the most prominent topic regarding small 'c' culture included values, beliefs and attitudes, followed by everyday living and interpersonal relations.
Language is one of the most important parts of any culture. It is the way by which people communicate with one another, build relationships, and create a sense of community. There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today, and each is unique in a number of ways.
Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, art.
Working in terms of Culture rather than Locale is an attempt at finding the correct level of abstraction — considering things in terms of groups of people who do things in similar ways, rather than talking about geographic areas and languages and somewhat derangedly thinking those correspond reliably to sets of cultural conventions.
They're similar in intent, just "Culture" is trying to find the abstraction sweet spot that "Locale" dramatically missed.
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