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All cultures are not equal and few cultures are uniformally isolated. Civilization is a byproduct of cultures interacting and blending.

And human happiness and quality of life is most supported by improving our diets, our education, our expressions and our psychologies.

Enlightenment ideals built the modern world, not relativism. We should be criticizing all cultures and our everyday actions.

"Culture" in some ways is just a random repetition of behavior and ideas. It may conform to environmental pressures but there is nothing intrinsic about it in regards to any ethnicity or race. All humans are lazy, hardworking, intellectual, superficial, selfish and selfless. The difference is which ideas push us in the right directions of our better nature.