If we are interested in cultural processes, the only way in which we can know the significance of the selected detail of behaviour is against the background of the motives and emotions and values that are institutionalized in that culture.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accomodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.