6th May 2012, 4:11 PM
Weltall Wrote:Gay culture is certainly more developed, and has at its heart a more powerful trait, but anything which brings people together into a group is culture. It is, in fact, the essence of culture. It's not up to us to determine which of them are valid and which are not.
Maybe I'm being pedantic about the usage of the word, but it seems to take on a vague meaning, or used rhetorically in a way that isn't always appropriate. You could describe, say, the tech culture, as a bunch of people getting together on web forums to discuss the latest gadgets, with hundreds of journalists and websites devoted to the topic. Could you rightfully call that a culture in the same way you could as tribes in Uganda? In the same way you could the way of life observed in Toyko, Paris, or Brazil?
Culture is more expansive than one or two traits that link people together. Not that designating "this is a culture, this isn't" takes away the strong principles behind advocating for gay equality and common sense drug policy.