How important is it for you to be 'cultured?'

"culture", "cultured". The word comes from plant breeding: to cultivate. And in one of many views, culture is dictatorship. But culture is also civilisation. There is a duality: Nature and Culture. This is used for distinguish art(ificial) from natural. But, there is no difference, respectivelly a decision is every time only a individual and modifiable.

Culture affects rituals and aesthetic. It is a kind of patterns. See in music: melodies and rythms. In Painting: forms/shapes and colors. It is possible to say a plant or a animal has culture. But in a another view you can say, thats nature.

Culture is a thing of "how much". And so one a thing of strictness. And also a sloppy lifestyle can be a culture. It is also a thing of repeat, see rituals. See uniforms. A hippie style is also a uniform, because it is possible to detect the hippie culture over the style. It exists also counterculture. And it exist No Culture like No Style.

Thats a big topic.

US America has culture and cultures, but not the same as in europe like the middle age. Unfortunatelly, the USA has destroyed his native culture. And in this view, USA is anti-culture. USA destroyed his past for a great America!

I like culture, but not too much. Culture is also to criticize culture.