[netr0ute]

What's the definition of high culture?

[nitwit005]

It means the culture of the upper class.

It's also one of those phrases where people insist that's not what it means. You can see this bizzare battle playing out on its wikipedia page:

> In popular usage, the term high culture identifies the culture either of the upper class (an aristocracy) or of a status class (the intelligentsia); high culture also identifies a society’s common repository of broad-range knowledge and tradition (folk culture) that transcends the social-class system of the society.

[carapace]

If we still read/watch it in a century?

[ghaff]

Not really. Both Shakespeare and Dickens were pretty mainstream culture at the time.

[orangepurple]

High culture is exactly equal to "surrogate activities" defined in this document: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...