In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture. In scientific language, culture is not a function of race.

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Ruth Benedict was a 19th-century American anthropologist and folklorologist. Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist and folklorist. Read more on Wikipedia →

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