Which of the following statements is incorrect?

Concept

Culture is a learned and shared system of meanings, values, norms, and practices. It is transmitted across generations, but transmission does not freeze it: interaction, innovation, and changing conditions continually reshape cultural patterns.

Application

The statement “Culture is static” treats culture as fixed. This conflicts with the defining characteristic that cultures adapt over time, whereas “Culture is dynamic” expresses that characteristic.

Contrast

• Ethical norms and principles develop historically within and across cultural communities and are transmitted and revised over time.

• People capable of rational, good-faith reflection are found across cultural settings; cultural difference does not remove the human capacity for reflection.

• Dynamic means capable of change; static means fixed. These are mutually exclusive descriptions in this context.

Result

Therefore, “Culture is static” is the incorrect statement.