They need these buildings to remind us of those who came before us and that beauty is diverse. Thus, just as we look at people of all nations and see the beauty of their diversity, we can look at different kinds of buildings and see their beauty and what was functional and admired in the past. Some things are worth preserving. It s like self-respect, because if we respect the good things in our past, we are respecting the good things that exist in us. You are absolutely correct.
Literature is that meeting-place.
Literature is part of culture, culture is that meeting-place. We must care where people come from in order to respect the fact that they have origins, they have parents and grandparents, they have music, dancing, poetry. There is great pleasure in diversity. We made what we needed. The country gives and it takes.