Diversity is stimulating and enriching. People invent, refine and embellish their cultures through contact with and by borrowing from other cultures as a way of living together. A global ethic is arising to recognise the multicultural and multilingual reality of society as a totaolity. It attempts to identify which universal values are best promoted by existing cultural practices and which ones require the transformation of outdated or unjust ones. Every community of people who share a language, a history or a way of life should have a right to their unique cultural identity and to the maintenance and development of cultural practices in harmony with mutual respect between all human beings.
People learn culture and that is culture's essential feature.
Although many qualities of human life are transmitted genetically, many cultural differences and commonalities cannot be explained genetically. Culture, as a body of learned behaviors common to a given human society, acts rather like a template, for example, it has predictable form and content, shaping behavior and consciousness within a human society from generation to generation.