| @CM: What bothers me even more is the inability of popular media to realistically depict any other culture at all. Usually they just use attributes, like they perform funny rituals, they wear green hats, and they have a queen. Very rarely do you see a portrait of a foreign cultures more basic values, or a more elaborate description.
You can say that to be culturally narrow minded is a feature of humanity, but I think it's important to point out that how much of it there is varies a lot between human and human, and also between culture and culture.
Generally I think that traveling and trading cultures are less narrow minded than those who do not travel, and I think that conquering cultures are in general more narrow minded and cultures which like to polarize are generally more narrow minded. The same applies also to individuals.
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