Is culture a manifestation of biology?

[Alberta1]

So culture wasn't created by human beings, it descended upon us from the heavens?

No it was created by the environment, which shaped the course of that specific culture to that particular group of people. Anyone can adopt a culture it's rather a very fliexable. Each group will have culture based on the natural conditions the extreme opposites like the Inuits and Bedouins are examples, nothing more and nothing less to it.

[ficuscarica]

Option 3. The environment formed the culture, but also the genetics of those who have that culture.

[spaz]

My stupid answer would be that cultures originate from groups of people, who are biological organisms, so of course, it stems from biology. I think the greater impact is environment, because each culture is tailored to the environment it originated from, much like the people.

Unless you mean a single individual's cultural habits, which I would say are learned from the environment they grow up in, or whatever they're exposed to, but also influenced by genetics.

[carol]

Yep, it sure did.

Damn egalitarian religions ruin everything logical.

[Contra Mundum]

No it was created by the environment, which shaped the course of that specific culture to that particular group of people. Anyone can adopt a culture it's rather a very fliexable. Each group will have culture based on the natural conditions the extreme opposites like the Inuits and Bedouins are examples, nothing more and nothing less to it.

I completely disagree with that. I do not believe if black Africans were dropped in an uninhabited Europe, that they would create anything remotely like the cultures of Europe today. Blacks and whites are biologically different, and they think differently.

[Stefan]

I completely disagree with that. I do not believe if black Africans were dropped in an uninhabited Europe, that they would create anything remotely like the cultures of Europe today. Blacks and whites are biologically different, and they think differently.

Just look at Liberia. They were Americanized, and yet they're still quite African today. Liberia is one of the nicer SSA countries though, which I think has much to do with their American-like political system.

[Lithium]

The culture is a manifestation of people's potential, manners and imagination.

[Contra Mundum]

When Clarence Thomas was a young man in law school, he said he responded to whites with the following "I'm just trying to survive in your world" when they asked him how he was doing. It's a struggle for many blacks to adapt to a culture than is so alien to them. Thomas seems to have succeeded though. Biology can be overcome in some cases.