Culture. Most of the time, when people think of culture ideas come up of ethnic practices and in general, culture is a positive word. However, I think culture is something to be treated with skepticism, as it does not always produce positive results. Traditional cultural practices are considered cherished parts of a society. But what are the negative effects of culture and ethnicity. First of all, culture divides people similarly to religion and nationality. Sure, two people from different cultures marry all the time, but it is always harder to do. Culture contributes to the separation of humanity into different groups in society. People tend to be "in their own little world", and do not see that humans are all extremely similar to on another, most people in certain cultures are far more alike people in other cultures then people in their own. People do not necessarily have to be racist to contribute to this negativity in culture. Many people simply want their "way of life" divided from people in other cultures. However, ones own personal identity is tied to one's culture, which is a betreyal of the sense of an individual. The most extreme cases are of course when parents do not let their children intermarry into different cultures, yet even the more open tend to favor people of their own culture over others? Why? Because of a random accident of birth, if they were born into another culture they would surely judge other cultures as not necessarily lesser, but different. Some tend to hold the "separate but equal" motto. Yet this will eventually cause for people to self-identify more with their own culture, which will inevitably cause indifference and hate. Culture and tradition do not hold any treasures for humanity, it is only a weak attempt to cling onto practices at childhood. Imagine a world with no culture. Imagine a world where each human identified with nobody but themselves. Imagine a world where people to not hold on to countries, religions, or cultures. Imagine a world where the only difference of us all was our different perspectives on political, scientific, and philosophical ideas, which are gruonded on logic and reason. Imagine a world in which we identify as humans instead of Americans.