In my understanding, a culture is shaped by two factors
1. Religion
2. Way of life
These two factors walk hand-in-hand in any culture. Religion is a product of the way of life a culture live (what people in a culture think is right and wrong). Once a religion is created, it'll be passed down to younger generations to live and believe in.
What one culture does may be offensive to another culture. There is no right or wrong culture.
If you think the human race is in its advanced stage, you are wrong. We are just in the stage of merging where cultures come together through economy. Why?
When a culture already have the basic needs required to survive, they will look for pleasure and new things to enrich themselves. In other words, they want to have more and they want to explore.
When two culture explore the small planet we live on, they collide. Their belief system will offend each other in one way or another. And, they will have to learn to tolerate each other for the better thing that is trade.
This merging process will take a very long time. It will only complete when in the minds of human, the only culture is the way of the human race. What benefit the human race and what not. When religions are kicked out of the picture and no longer exist.
16-Jan-2019 07:21:09