I am an extreme outlier, so I don't count. My entire history, DNA, the multiple countries I've lived in and worked in, etc. make it impossible to use me as any sort of example.

Most people do NOT question what they believe. They are unaware. The fact that you have 'teach' them this is indicative of the fact that we all absorb the culture that we live in. It is only when we move outside of that culture that many question their beliefs.

If you had been born in America, you would not take basic health care as part of your core values. Why do you think America does not have it.

I never said that one was born into culture. I said it was a process of socialization and culturization, and it is virtually impossible for people to step away from it. I've lived in too many countries not to recognize and see that.

Culture has nothing to do with finding one's core values. The dictionary defines cultures as "the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society."

We differ a great deal. If I have to hear that buzz word 'empathy' once more I am going to scream. I don't believe in living one's life according to one's feelings and emotions. I believe in the studied examination, through intellect, of whether something is destructive (bad) or constructive (good), and living according to those precepts, i.e. ethics.

I also, after the life I have lived, do not have one bit of respect for humanity.