No, culture is just traditions as they're practiced by people who consider them to be the proper way, while civilization is this institutionalized stuff everyone is forced into simply for existing within it's grasp.
Do you not see how these two things are literally the exact same thing? Human beings really have only two types of informational inputs: genetic and cultural.
Maybe you want to count physical environment as a third input, whatever
Humans get instructions on how to behave from genetic information and cultural information. That is it. If it isn’t genetic information, its cultural.
Cultural information is a set of abstract information that informs modes of behavior. This includes rules like “Cook your rice this way” or “ Pay your taxes” or “Don’t say nigger”—- its all the same thing. Humans are social animals that heavily depend on each other within a society. There must be rules of a society imposed on individuals (stuff everyone is forced into) because one individual’s reckless behaviors are the burden of everyone else in the society. It is the nature of being highly interdependent.
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Are you aware, that humans are physically incapable to keep any kind of relationship to more than 150 people, and that this number appears to be the upper limit for the size of tribes that would occur under natural conditions, under which humans have lived for about 99% of the time since they've evolved?
You seem to think, that this civilized bullshit we're living under is normal.
That is a totally speculative estimate for the number of people someone can keep track of personally but it in no way indicates the number of people a successful nation is limited to.
You certainly cant limit your breeding population to that number. You wont have a very wealthy or knowledgeable society if you limit it to 150 people either.
I dont think this society is normal anymore since we let jews take it over and try to incorporate people from every race into it but I do think that a well regulated society can sustain between 10 and 100 million people easily. Maybe a billion or more. It all depends on how culturally and genetically homogeneous it is.
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