The West and the Rest

Culture is our biggest most general term for everything there is.

It is an artifact, a framework which varies from culture to culture.

What constitutes culture?

The way people reason and even perceive can vary across cultures. The whole way of organizing reality can vary from culture to culture.

The perceived fundamental rights of people vary across cultures.

What is normal varies from culture to culture.

Causes and origins are seen as different from culture to culture. Are they under human control, human influence, divine control, etc.

If society were structured based on the mother-child relationship, rather than the concept of the independent male, what would the resulting society look like? Would men feel inherently discriminated against because they were less essential to the mother child relationship than women, just as women feel inherently discriminated against in a male oriented society because of their lack of choice in the mother-child relationship?

Western assumptions: the male is the norm, and nature is there to be exploited.