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Edu-Cultured 

A college educated person, who is cultured in arts, music, and modern societal pleasures.

A well educated decedent of the hipster. See Hipster
- "After class on Friday, Jessica and I are going to the downtown Jazz festival, are you going too?"
- "No, you're just too edu-cultured for me, I'm going squirrel hunting with my dad-cousin"
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High Cultured 

Is when you are multi cultured in something. Like music or lifestyle
Friend: You like this song?

You: yeah. I’m High Cultured
High Cultured by King ADG September 19, 2020

E-Cultured 

E-Cultured refers to individuals who possess a refined and sophisticated knowledge of cutting-edge technology, particularly within the realm of digital currencies, blockchain, and virtual experiences. These individuals seamlessly blend the worlds of technology and culture, showcasing an exquisite mastery of the digital domain.
Indulge me, my dear, for you have yet to grace the shores of Ethereum Island; your E-Cultured pedigree remains a treasure untapped.
E-Cultured by CardanoKingpin January 11, 2024

Theory of Constructed Cultures

The view that culture isn't a static inheritance passed down like DNA, but a dynamic set of practices, values, and symbols that a group actively builds, debates, and modifies to adapt to new circumstances. Traditions are often "invented," and what seems ancient was frequently constructed quite recently to create a sense of shared identity and continuity in a changing world.
Example: "Modern Scottish tartans for specific clans? Mostly constructed in the 19th century. The Theory of Constructed Cultures shows that what feels like an ancient, essential identity is often a recently built toolkit for solidarity and tourism. Culture isn't a museum piece you inherit; it's a workshop where you build 'who we are' in the present, often using recycled parts from the past."

Theory of Concrete and Imaginary Cultures

An anthropological model separating lived experience from ideological construct. Concrete Culture is the embodied, daily praxis: the recipes you cook, the slang you speak, the rituals you perform in your family. Imaginary Culture is the idealized, often politicized abstraction: "Western values," "the Latin way of life," "corporate culture." It's the distilled story a group tells about itself, which may gloss over internal contradictions and is often used as a tool for unity, marketing, or exclusion.
Theory of Concrete and Imaginary Cultures Example: The Concrete Culture of a region includes its specific dialect, harvest festivals, and everyday etiquette. The Imaginary Culture is the "American Dream" or "French Sophistication"—mythic narratives that simplify complex realities into a marketable or nationalist identity. Tourists encounter the concrete culture but buy souvenirs symbolizing the imaginary one, showing how the abstract drives economics and perception.

Culturall 

Completely cultural
The culturall encompasses many ethics and principles.
Culturall by Hercolena Oliver January 21, 2010

Cultural Disaster 

The result of a music producers attempt to create innovative music through unconventional collaboration between different cultural styles, trends and other phenomena in hopes that the novelty of the work will capture attention of consumers.

Usually this innovation stays within familiar boundaries in order to avoid testing any actual comfort zones of the listener, resulting in an uninspired, overplayed marketing gimmick which, at least in principle, would actually be offensive to many individuals provided anyone actually took the time to think about it as something other than a marketable product.
A sarcastic account of a cultural disaster would resemble something similar to the statement concerning the music video for the Lady Gaga song "Telephone" that follows: "I love how Lady Gaga, Beyonce and some of their backup dancers wear torn up American flags as costumes while dancing in a bar where the plot indicates they just murdered all the patrons, while singing about the perils of people trying to call your cell phone while you are drunk at a club. It conveys respect for themselves, pride for their nation and, most important of all, makes a lot of sense."

See also: Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho