Cultural Universals - Stuff shared by ALL cultures

[Lucasxp64]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_universal

Those are the most interesting:

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# Beliefs

    Magical thinking
    Use of magic to increase life and win love
    Beliefs about death
    Beliefs about disease
    Beliefs about fortune and misfortune
    Divination
    Attempts to control weather
    Dream interpretation
    Beliefs and narratives
    Proverbs, sayings
    Poetry/rhetorics
    Healing practices, medicine
    Childbirth customs
    Rites of passage
    Music, rhythm, dance, and to some degree associations between music and emotion
    Play
    Toys, playthings
    Death rituals, mourning
    Feasting
    Body adornment
    Hairstyles
    Art

# Society

Personal names
Family or household
Kin groups
Peer groups not based on family
Actions under self-control distinguished from those not under control
Affection expressed and felt
Age grades, statuses, and terms
Law: rights and obligations, rules of membership
Moral sentiments
Distinguishing right and wrong, good and bad
Promise/oath
Prestige inequalities
Statuses and roles
Leaders
Inclination towards patriarchy (dominance of men in society)
De facto oligarchy
Property
Coalitions
Collective identities
Conflict
Cooperative labor
Gender roles
Males on average travel greater distances over lifetime
Marriage
Husband older than wife on average
Copulation normally conducted in privacy
Incest prevention or avoidance, incest between mother and son unthinkable
Collective decision making
Etiquette
Inheritance rules
Generosity admired, gift giving
Mood- or consciousness-altering techniques and/or substances
Redress of wrongs, sanctions
Sexual jealousy
Sexual violence
Shame
Territoriality
Triangular awareness (assessing relationships among the self and two other people)
Some forms of proscribed violence
Visiting
Trade

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Lucasxp64

[Leo Gura]

Cuisine.

Every culture is built around food in some way. Every culture has its staple traditional foods and its glorification of certain foods.

God. Every culture corporates God in some way.

Edited 10 hours ago by Leo Gura

[mmKay]

What are the main pillars of a culture? 🤔

[Reciprocality]

All those universals seem to come in two categories

1. What all humans attend to

2. What only some humans attend to, which non the less are functionally identical to what all humans attend to via how any true statement about these subsets of human behaviours binds us to more general statements that converge with more and ultimately all behaviour. 

 

One universal can be observed, the other must be inferred. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Reciprocality