Why are cultures different?

Answer 1

DIFFERENT CULTURE, Cultures are different because the locations they exist in are different. Some people living in the desert, they're going to live differently from people living in a jungle, right? So when they have to decide why the sky is blue, if you're living in the jungle and there's loads of blue flowers, you might say it's because there are loads of these blue flowers up there. If you live in the desert you might have never seen a blue flower so you say it's because there's water up there. So people come up with this different stuff, and then they elaborate on it, and change it around. Then their kids move to different places and it gets all mixed up, and the stories change, and people invent science and that changes everything too - but the beginnings are still there. Everyone knows now that the sky's blue because of light wavelength absorption differences, but you still have people who grew up one way saying "My grandmother told me a story about blue flowers in the sky" and other people say "my grandmother told me a story about seas of water in the sky", and that's a different culture.

Like, in the Mediteranian they never saw corn until they sent people exploring to the Americas; and in the Americas they'd never seen olives until the guys from the Mediteranian brought some over. So before they met the people in the Americas made a lot of corn cakes and corn bread and stuff, and that was part of their culture; and the guys from the mediteranian made a lot of olive stuff, oil and foods, and that was part of their culture. And after they traded stuff so they could both make corn bread and olive oil, but the people who started with olives first still do more stuff with olives and the people who started corn first still make more stuff with corn.