Is it possible to talk of any person or thing with relation to a person without discussing culture? Any endeavor of a people is indelibly a cultural manifestation and a cultural inspiration seemingly without origin or end. Sure, we could suppose demarcations of beginning, end, and separation, but even those are separate angles to an overall cultural shape that ultimately refutes solid definition. We have divided our understanding into various disciplines, but culture examines these internally and externally, as though we are the artist and the viewer of the art simultaneously. As such, all discussions become a presentation of culture even self-referentially.

That would be treating it fairly. When do people do that? All exact analysis aside, culture to most is art, literature, music, and fashion. Those of good learning begin to understand how art is a reflection of custom, tradition, and law. So then we can include regional and racial particulars in the cultural definition. I would freely put history, science and religion into the mix but most would shout me down, preferring instead a distinct separation.

Though it pains me, I will put in here those nebulous aspects of peoples and nations that don't seem to fit anywhere else. Most prominent here are short treatises on the various peoples of the continent; what makes them similar and what makes them very different from each other. Also here will be found studies on aesthetics, songs, poetry, and stories. In most cases, I could expound at length upon the value and meaning of a particular work, but I won't here. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.