Traditional Culture and Modern Culture: Man's Fall from Grace. In some ways, traditional culture and modern culture are alike. Any culture is a system of learned and shared meanings. People learn and share things over the course of generations, and so we say they are a culture. Traditional and modern culture function similarly because both are ways of thinking, ways of relating to people and to the universe.
Turpitude is defined as wickedness or sinfulness. An example of turpitude is behavior considered immoral and sinful by society. 1  baseness; vileness; depravity.  an instance of this.
But, what is a crime of moral turpitude? The word is from the Latin word turpis which means foul, disgraceful or ugly. Moral turpitude refers to moral standards, rather than legal standards, its definition changes over time and from place to place. There can be a lot of difference between what is legal and what is right or moral.