Traditional Culture and Modern Culture: Man's Fall from Grace. In some ways, traditional culture and modern culture are alike. Any culture is a system of learned and shared meanings. People learn and share things over the course of generations, and so we say they are a culture. Traditional and modern culture function similarly because both are ways of thinking, ways of relating to people and to the universe.
Turpitude is defined as wickedness or sinfulness. An example of turpitude is behavior considered immoral and sinful by society. 1  baseness; vileness; depravity.  an instance of this.
FORTITUDE. Firmness of spirit. As a virtue, it is a steadiness of will in doing good in spite of difficulties faced in the performance of one's duty. There are two levels to the practice of fortitude: one is the suppression of inordinate fear and the other is the curbing of recklessness. The control of fear is the main role of fortitude.