I find this utterly wrong, the USA can exist without Pakistani or Arab culture very easily. There is no need or benefit from Arab/Pakistani/Islamic culture.
I fail to see your point. I was making a connection between how religion and culture can co-exist and even compliment each other.
Perhaps you should read it again.
Re: Culture vs. Religion
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Re: Culture vs. Religion
Religion is a part of culture. Culture is like sea, all encompassing, in which we swim.
I don't think this question gets raised at all if one looks deeply. While only scratching the surface one can have the opinion that there are some areas where culture is effecting the purity (so called) of religion.
But looking deeply into it, there is no religion outside the culture, And i think the older people of this region where never confused about this, In current times, when people of our region are getting confused of there culture, the religious parties can make them feel this way about religion, that its a kind of external thing.