Bert hamminga Questions about Identifying culture groups          version date 991101

Control questions:

1. What makes discussions between people of different cultures so difficult?
2. What types of errors are unavoidable to make in defining culture groups?
3. Why, despite these errors do we define culture groups?
4. What is the meaning here of the term "philosophy"?

Open questions:

1. Do you think the main labels for culture groups proposed on this page are workable? Why (not)?

Exercise:

Think of a question not posed thus far that can clearly be answered by someone who carefully read this web page.