There is also the aspect of culture as an extension of the extended family. My relatives lived in an isolated place for many generations the other families within this isolated location interacted in complex ways to form very deep history between these families and with the land. As with other ecosystems- cultures can be very vulnerable- some might define the protectivity of their culture as a type of sociopathic racism- but I don't believe it.

To me it's perhaps an example of sociopathic liberalism.

To me it's more evil to destroy a cultures community.

Those cultures that impact a culture are "more bad" than a culture that integrates better.

A cultural influence can also be a business culture.

Canem Malum,

Cultures may vary, but most human beings spend their
entire lives within the culture in which they were born.
Knowing little about other ways of life, they see their
own norms and values as inevitable rather than optional.

For this reason, people in every society have some
measure of ethnocentrism - the tendency to judge other
cultures by the standards of one's own. People everywhere
are apt to take it for granted that their morality, their
marriage forms, their clothing styles, their religions,
their beliefs are right and proper, and the best of all
possible choices.

Ethnocentrism is particularly strong in isolated
traditional societies that have had little contact with
other cultures. But even in the modern world, where
citizens have such advantages as formal education, mass
communication and international travel such attitudes
still prevail.

It is almost impossible to view one's own culture
objectively. Ethnocentrism can be
functional to a society. It can provide faith and
confidence in one's own tradition,
discourage penetration by outsiders,
and ensure the solidarity and unity of the
group.

But under some conditions ethnocentrism can have many
undesirable effects. It can encourage racism, it can
cause hostility and conflict between groups, and it can make
a people unwilling to see the need for changes in their own
culture.

The ability to full understand another culture depends
largely on one's willingness to adopt the position of
cultural relativism, the recognition that one culture
cannot be arbitrarily judged by the standards of another.

Cultural relativism does not mean moral relativism -
the position that one morality is as good as another. That
view could quickly lead us to an "anything goes" position,
in which wife-beating, stoning, cannibalism,
are all equally acceptable. What cultural
relativism does mean is that the practices of another
society can be fully understood only in terms of its own
norms and values.

Once we have learned that we can perhaps
better understand their practices even though we may not
approve of them.

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For example the Japanese are appalled that we send
our old people to nursing homes and we don't understand
why the eskimos sometimes left their old people to
die in the cold.

For the practical purposes of studying human behaviour
it is vital that we try , as far as possible, to
remove the blinders of our own culture when we are
looking at another. In the process we may lose a certain
self-righteousness about our own assumptions, and may
even learn something about our own culture, too.

cont'd ...

Of course it goes without saying that people
who come to our country from other cultures
must live and abide by the rule of law that
we all are expected to obey.

One way of experiencing immigration is like a home invasion- the sense of violation that continues long after the crime. The idea that our culture and community is not safe. A raw wound that due to the constant influx never heals. The sense of betrayal of the community by policy makers on both sides. But it is perhaps the fault of the population for not acting to correct the betrayal.

Foxy appears to see those with these sensations as psychologically damaged. I believe that Foxy is incorrect. I believe that the issues include power, responsibility, ownership, culture.

"Government is a group of people usually ungoverned" - Firefly.

Foxy said- "But under some conditions ethnocentrism can have many
undesirable effects. It can encourage racism,

Answer-
Foxy discussed Ethnocentricism and Racism- Some may say they are synonymous. Perhaps it isn't bad to protect ones own culture.

Foxy said- " it can cause hostility and conflict between groups,"

Answer- Perhaps the underlying cause of the hostility and conflict is due to legitimate fear in relation to scarcity of resources.

Foxy said- " and it can make a people unwilling to see the need for changes in their own culture."

Answer- Who should judge the need for change within according to whose criteria. Perhaps this sort of universal authoritarianism is worse than low level village authoritarianism.