Culture as a Version
Culture is a version. Every individual and every nation have their own version or even a few versions that can either agree or clash. The Belarusians for instance have several cultural versions varying in their complexity and consistency.
There can be native and alien cultures. Their versions emerge, grow, develop, maintain themselves and vanish either in the course of nature or driven out by other versions. A war of versions is not a rare thing to happen.
Fyodar Had a Little Bear
Russian poet Nikolay Nekrasov reportedly said of Dostoevsky’s first novel Poor People, ‘A good novel, but you write not like a Russian’. ‘Why do you only say I am not like a Russian?’, Dostoevsky blurted out.