Oddly enough, culture includes all these people. To his way of thinking, there is little of fixed or permanent status to any culture. A culture is always so much more than any given language can express, certainly more than what any icon could represent. The ethnographers warn that there is no neutral, objective investigation of another culture. So much for disinterested investigation.
Westerners think like Westerners because their experience is in and of the West.
As colonial authorities in India, the British tried to outlaw suttee , the ritual immolation of a wife who remained after the death of her husband. The British could not accept in others what their culture forbade for them. And it doesn't take too long a trip through the concrete reality of strip shopping malls and pandering fast-food joints to convince many Americans that maybe we have erred on the side of the material. This may be what studying ancient cultures teaches us. Provided by the University of Evansville .