People need culture generally but not allegiance to any single cultural framework.

Evidence

While Waldron concedes that we need cultural meanings of some kind, he argues that we do not need specific cultural frameworks: “we need to understand our choices in the contexts in which they make sense, but we do not need any single context to structure our choices. To put it crudely, we need culture, but we do not need cultural integrity” (1995:108). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 924

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures Waldron’s distinction between needing culture-as-such versus needing cultural integrity, a key liberal-cosmopolitan claim.
• XREF: Contrasts with the ethnicity-as-ascribed-identity definitions used elsewhere in the vault; useful for a race-versus-culture clarification note. — connects to: No dominant culture ever exhausts the full range of human practice — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 904; Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323; Languages have no inherent mission or essence. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 588

Broader Connections

• No dominant culture ever exhausts the full range of human practice #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 904
• Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment. #expands (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323