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For so many of us, culture defines we are. It determines our conception of right and wrong, what we believe, and why we believe it; it is the difference between joy and misery in sufficient or insufficient circumstances alike. It is the setting and the premise of every story that we write for ourselves in this life.

And if we are to change another beside us, or, better yet, the ones that will come after us—to help them see the way we see things, to help them believe what we believe, and to know what we know—we have to change the culture.