Culture is homogenous. This presumes that a (local) culture is free of
internal paradoxes and contradictions such that (a) it provides clear and
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unambiguous
behavioural ‘instructions’ to individuals – a program for
how to act – or (b) once grasped or learned by an outsider, it can be characterized
in relatively straightforward ways (‘the Dobuans are paranoid’).
A homogenous view of culture makes the second inadequate idea easier
to sustain, namely that