Everyone has a language, habits, and certain beliefs or assumptions about the world. And if you find two or more people who share some of those traits, you have a culture.
That's it. That's all a culture is. Everyone is part of a culture - usually multiple cultures. If you don't notice a particular culture, it's just because you're swimming in it. Violet Delights also said it well in her comment: https://medium.com/@queenghidrah/this-is-like-suggesting-that-white-americans-have-no-accent-of-course-they-have-an-accent-e7ce5e167c03?source=responses-----98b92810c47b----2----------------------------
Words are hard because everybody has different definitions, but what I'm getting at specifically, which is not mentioned in the Oxford definition, is that I think people usually accompany pride with a sense that they can take credit for their accomplishments.
I don't take credit for the assertions I've made here, and that's why I don't need pride to say them. All I need is the belief that they are true, and the hope that they might be read by someone who might be moved by them, and that that might help the idea proliferate and help humanity experience more happiness and less suffering in the long run.
To the point about pleasure and satisfaction: I am all for people feeling pleased and satisfied. But I want them to be pleased and satisfied for the right reasons. And taking credit for your life (successes, failures, culture, ANYTHING) is not a good reason, because it's not true.
Think of any success you've had in your life - any time you've performed better than another person. If you think hard enough, you can always find some advantage you had over them (better brain, better mentors, more time to prepare, more at stake). If you can't, you're not thinking hard enough.
But it also works the other way. Any failure you've had in life, you can always find a reason why you failed and another person succeeded instead.
Although we can often predict our fate to some extent, we do not control it. And it would really help everyone get along better if we actually understood that and acknowledged it intellectually.
