Culture (Latin: Cultura) denotes a state of personal cultivation, reaching out to a universal capacity for humanity. This it derives from its latin root. However, in the last few centuries, cultura has come to signify any set of shared expressions of experience by creative means that distinguishes a society, organization or country. On a global scale, the latter comes to mean something more universal human, a quality of Humanitas. Whichever definition is considered, culture always regards improvement of oneself in some way; though, what exactly is the proper way to improve remains a point of contention.