It's the culture, stupid!

Culture is where human beings form "moral circles": groups with certain criteria of affiliation, which are more and less indispensable. Those moral circles or societies face the same basic problems, in terms of

• Relation to Power
• The individual's place within the group
• What it means being born as boy or a girl
• How to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty - to what extent aggression and emotional expression should be controlled
• Strategies to develop and prosper
• Societal control over human inclination to pleasure and letting it go

and every society has its own set of answers to it.