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First of all what is “culture”?

We humans have borders that divide us into tribes. The rules of the division are not always clear. Language? But USA and Australia speak the same language…
Same is the case for South Africa, England, Sudan, Botswana, Nigeria, Singapore, Namibia or Ghana. And some 100 more tribes:

French? Some 50 tribes speak French!

The fact is that there are many tribes that speak the same language yet their cultures can be totally different.

So what makes a “culture” is a soup of traditions, beliefs, religion, food, knowledge, art, clothing style, humor, sport, and so on.

A cluster of values that makes a group of people a bit different from another.

In that sense cultures are not only limited by borders and tribes, but they can form around a topic of interest such as gaming, movies, even celebrities.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#culture #language #games #movies #english #french

@trom
Culture is downstream from race. This is why all European peoples, be they in US, Australia, or elsewhere have similar cultures. Africans everywhere also have cultures more similar to each other than to Europeans.

Although people may mimic or adopt cultures of another race, they cannot create or improve those cultures. Culture is created amongst a homogeneous population. Some people are capable of producing high culture and civilization from it.

Culture is lost when it is mixed into other cultures. If you take all the colorful crayons in a box and melt them together, you get an ugly grey.

> There is no other race than the human race.

I love this line because it actually runs contrary to Darwin's theory AT IT'S CORE.

In short, Darwin discovered that species undergo random mutations which make the more or less evolutionarily fit, and some flourish while others die out - leading to an "evolution" of the species.

Concretely this means that any given mutation "splits" a species into those which have it and those which don't. If the mutation is eugenic, then those with it compete better, if it's dysgenic then it's the other way.

If the human species is subject to mutations, then it has "splits", which means there are different "groups" (i.e. races). If it's not, then you don't believe in evolution.

@cjd @Bernard @tio @trom
Saying humans are all one race completely goes against the branching nature seen in all things. It isn't even just evolution on the species level. As mountains erode, so can the physical components of reproduction be changed, whether current gene theory is even accurate or not. You will end up with branching groups whose differences need to be accounted for one way or another.

To deny this is to deny everything we know about nature on a fundamental level. It would be an absolutely massive and game-changing thing with widespread implications.

Disproving that humans evolved up from single-cell organisms would be much less disruptive than whatever would be needed to explain away the lack of significantly different groups within humanity.