ABSTRACT
Among the earth's billions, not one is like another. Still, like a trickle that becomes a spring and then a river that forges a delta that flows into the ocean, individuals become families and clans, tribes and nations before joining the larger humankind. Though each bears a unique cultural identity, all eventually connect to the whole. According to one anthropologist:
Culture is like a tree, a fabulous tree, in which each branch is formed differently from its neighbor, each flower has its own color and fragrance, each fruit its special sweetness. This wealth and abundance has developed naturally. Each culture and each people bears its individual stamp; but the branches are all shoots of the same trunk and are fed by the same sap.1
