Culture is defined by Wikipedia as “an umbrella term which encompasses the social behaviour and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups”. So you could apply that definition to just about everything in any society and claim it to be cultural. However, I reckon that it is the literature and the poetry and the arts in any society which could be viewed (at least) as the vanguard of their culture. I want to focus on our recent cultural (political) obsession with “diversity” and “identity”…