Culture means homogeneity.

 Culture means homogeneity. The state of “people growing closer to one another” is, in fact, a species closing in on itself, turning into an echo chamber. Such people are distant toward the outside and close toward the inside, once they become the carriers of shared values among themselves. That is to say, they are naturally prejudiced against those from other cultures—or especially against those belonging to no culture at all—because the very formation of such a community requires the exclusion of those who are not part of it. This is the foundation of nationalism and patriotism. When this condition appears not in groups but in individuals, it becomes respectable; for in the first case, the individual annihilates themself by offering themself to a god, while in the second, they annihilate others by deifying themself.