This assumption, I believe, drives not only McCarty's work but hermeneutic understanding in general. It has important implications for how we view cultural boundaries. Specifically, it points us towards the common or universal. Paths intersect, McCarty notes. In so doing, they both lead to future and recall a multitude of commonalities.
Home tends in the same direction.
1 Takt preserves the universality implicit in Hegel's Bildung. McCarty's culture, we thus can say, inclines towards harmony and wholeness. While attentive to plurality, it accents what we share. Cultural understanding is at once expansive and inclusive. The better interpretation is the one that is more comprehensive.