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When promoting cultural policy, one must beat in mind a recent broad definition of culture in recognition of its close connection to everyday life, as a so-called "daily life culture".

The term "daily life culture" can refer to, for example, the ways in which people utilize their limited resources of time, space and goods to create a life style, which can then be expressed in seasonal events, tools, culinary culture and the like in respective families or local communities.

The major agents in the creation and transmission of daily life culture are individuals, and the groups made up of these individuals, namely families, local communities and work places. This concept can also be extended to and developed on national and international levels.

The role that policy dealing with daily life culture should play is that of, while respecting the independence and spontaneity of these bearers of daily life culture, lending support and encouragement to their activities as the occasion demands, and conducting various policies to promote daily life culture, including the recruitment and training of personnel and assistance with the creation of organizational structures.