Nomads and barbaric cultures emphasize animals and ornamental designs. Civilizations {civilization}| emphasize people. Civilization often begins with war and culture mixing, which spreads new ideas. Vitality, confidence, belief, and wealth characterize these beginnings. Creativity, stability, permanence, continuity with past, consciousness of future, internationalism, justice, beauty, spiritualism, morality, reason, and balance follow. Then feelings and ideas exhaust, and despair and staleness begin. At end, people fear war, disease, crime, outside dominance, radical change, and supernatural.
Perhaps, human characteristics do not depend on society {atomism, sociology}. Alternatively, human characteristics depend on society {non-atomism}.
Cultures develop along similar lines, but independently of others {autochthonous theory}.
Culture spreads from one place {diffusional theory}.
Perhaps, culture has high-level effects {holism, sociology} on intentions through language, tradition, and other mental ideas {methodological holism}.
Perhaps, society has no effects on people's intentions, because societies are only aggregates of individuals {individualism, sociology}.
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