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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9798693" data-attributes="member: 58172">What do you be consider a "culture" to be?A group that shares a language? Background grants this.An Amercan athlete excels in American football? A background can do this for a modern US setting.A culture is made out of disparate institutions, shared group traditions, such as popular football sports. Not every American knows how to play football, but in an American group there will be a higher frequency of individuals who do. Not every American plays or likes football.If it is that all Norse get Cold damage resistance, but all Americans get a bonus to Intelligence, that is racism, not culture.So what do you mean, exactly, by the word "culture".There is no such thing as a cultural "essence". Not even every French likes wine and cheese.A culture is like a crate of lego pieces. The experience of a particular individual character is like assembling a lego structure from pieces out of this crate, to present the experiences that the character happens to have run into while growing up.Each background is a handful of lego pieces. This is precisely how reallife cultures work: skills gained while participating in the traditions of specific groups in specific places.</blockquote>