local culture
Area's shared traditions
Local culture is the customs, traditions, arts, and social practices particular to a specific place or community.
Travelers seek out local culture through food, music, and markets rather than chain restaurants and tourist traps.
The phrase often implies authenticity and distinctiveness: We wanted to experience the local culture, not just see the sights.
It can also refer to what's threatened by globalization or development.
- festivalOrganized public celebration
- street fairOutdoor community market event
- town squareCentral civic space
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- old wives taleUnverified traditional belief
storytelling · music · painting · custom · ceremony · oral history · folk song · family unit · recipe · community · ritual · mother tongue · heritage · dance · traditional dress · neighborliness · craftwork · dialect
- local pridehometown pride, civic pride, regional pride, community roots, state pride
- local resourcescity guides, town records, city archives
- communityneighbors, neighborliness, neighborhoods, kinship, community centers
- culturesMediterranean cultures, subculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground
- local communityneighbor, resident, town hall, city council, zoning
- regionallocale, vicinity, neighborhood, area, zone
local culturemass culture
Widely shared cultural products
monoculture · Americanization · corporate culture · foreign influence · cultural imperialism