June 4, 1999

Culture and Nature Are Inseparable

By FRANS B.M. DE WAAL

Understandably, students of human culture pay more attention to cultural differences than to similarities. What all cultures have in common strikes us as obvious, to the point of being boring. The English may drink tea at a time of day when the Germans drink beer, and we may attach great importance to that difference, but the fact is that both cultures manage to satisfy the basic human need of liquid intake. Such

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