Maybe it's a pity party, but everyone likes to address keeping culture alive and tracing roots until your family like gets so muddled with sold off women and youngest daughters being forgotten about that like, what about those of us with no culture to trace? The last remnants of dying religious control that just melds off into pure patriarchal sexism. There's multiple texts out there that encourage women being the sole keepers of culture, that men are too worldly so thus women must be the ones who are the root, but that itself usually just ties back into the sexism of "owning" the women of your culture/race and not wanting them to leave. What does it all really even mean anyways, when everything is just a tool? To bond, to control, to set goals, to encourage comradery. This rant isn't to imply that culture is bad, it's to question what to do when one has no culture to speak on.
If culture is intangible and is just used to describe the shared traditions of a society, I really don't get the obsession over it because EVERYTHING is culture at that point. And if it's everything, it's nothing.
