One speaks of his/her culture, points to what it has achieved in education. Are its people high on the list of the most educated or trailing the most educated in the 21st century? Are its people noted for winning Nobel Prizes in medicine, in science, in technology or any field that requires the use of the brain or does their "culture" emphasize running and jumping?
And if a person heard a basketball being bounced on a sidewalk at midnight or on a city bus or in a restaurant or in a public toilet would that person, without looking, automatically say, "The people from that 'culture' are always bouncing basketballs."
Has any literature and music created by the writers and musicians of that "culture" equaled the great literature and music of men and women of other cultures?
Are the people of that "culture" so intellectually meek that they can't tolerate self-criticism, and are destined to not improve but to disappear?
Cultures do not come from a voice in the clouds; they're created by men and women. If the culture of a particular group isn't producing the needs of its people, then those people's "leaders" are to blame.
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