Culture to a human is like water to a fish. We move around in it constantly but we don’t notice it very much. Though unnoticed water can have profound effects on fish. Too cold and they freeze. Too hot and they boil. Not enough oxygen and they suffocate. Too polluted and they choke to death. In a similar fashion the culture in which we move shapes us in many subtle ways. If it’s refined the world we perceive and the world we deal with is refined. If it’s crude the world is crude. If it’s toxic t the world is toxic.
