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Originally Posted by Leipreachán
As above. This is something I’ve been wondering about for sometime. Does race make the culture? Do our European cultures exist because of our European race (Caucasoid or what ever the correct term would be)?
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Depends exactly what you mean with race.
In earlier days, race was used about every people or tribe you'd imagine. Race would be a both spiritual and material dimension. But today, race is used often in a more exclusively anthropological/material context.
So maybe what you need to do is simply specify your terminology.
Perhaps we should ask, what comes first, or which is the most crucial part, the people or the culture? And more precisely, we should be asking what qualities of the people we are looking to establish in relation to their culture. You have to look at the mechanism.
Isnt culture a quality of the people? In that case, how important are the people in connection to their culture? They are the originator of it, so the qualities of the people are crucial for the culture. Which would logically mean that the race or people is very important for their culture.