If we turn to the relationship between culture and language, we see some remarkable comments; for example, Sapir (1921) argued that ‘language, race, and culture are not necessarily correlated’, adding the remark ‘language and our thought-grooves are inextricably interrelated, are, in a sense, one and the same’. Yet this single remark does not supply a satisfactory reply to the question of why culture teaching should be involved in language teaching. Kitao (2000) giving reference to several authors lists some of the benefits of teaching culture as follows