ABSTRACT
Culture in its formal definition is one of the fulfillments of the psychic needs of man. A culture nearly always appears contemporaneously with the expression of religious feeling. Culture is sometimes auxiliary to this expression, but characteristically it is man's response to the various manifestations of this world as they impinge upon his mundane life. Culture by its very nature tends to be centripetal, or to aspire toward some unity in its representational modes. For the freedom of cultures as wholes, two rights must be respected: the right of cultural pluralism where different cultures have developed, and the right of cultural autonomy in the development of a single culture. Culture emerges out of climatic, geographical, ecological, racial, religious, and linguistic soils; a state may have to deal with all these factors, but it does not deal with them at the level where they enter into cultural expression.
