The phrase "as a separate culture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group or community that has distinct cultural practices, beliefs, or characteristics that set it apart from others.
Example: "The indigenous people have maintained their traditions and languages, existing as a separate culture within the modern nation."
Alternatives: "as an independent culture" or "as a distinct culture".
The social critic Michael Harrington, who focussed prominently on Appalachia in his 1962 book, "The Other America," described poverty as a "separate culture, another nation, with its own way of life".
It is still possible to identify the region in which the Yukaghir formerly lived as a separate culture group in eastern Siberia, but for the several hundred Yukaghir who remain political absorption, acculturation, and internal social decay have made the classic description of the group largely a historic one.
Progress has been often associated with efforts to undermine what the late Michael Harrington described as a "separate culture, another nation with its own way of life".
The resulting suspension was plated in DMEM containing 10% FCS and antibiotics, with each embryo maintained as a separate culture.
Each laboratory stock was established and maintained as a separate culture at a population size of greater than 200 individuals on standard medium (20 1, flour:brewer's yeast, by weight) in a dark incubator at 24 °C and approximately 70% relative humidity.
But all that foofy stuff looks irrelevant to modern gay men, who don't see themselves as belonging to a separate culture, let alone such a queeny one.
For evaluation of the effect of suboptimal versus conventional and high TCR-stimulus strength 10 µg/mL, 5 µg/mL and 0.5 µg/mL anti-CD3 antibody was used in combination with 1 µg/mL anti-CD28, as well as separate cultures with anti-CD3 (5 µg/mL) or anti-CD28 (1 µg/mL) only.
Known as Samis, they are making themselves heard quite purposefully in their own language, a tongue once forbidden in Norway, which they feel defines and sustains them as a separate and lasting culture.
In 870 a separate Bulgarian Orthodox Church was established, affirming Bulgaria's emergence as a separate nation and culture and thus aiding the assimilation of the Bulgars by the Slavic majority they had conquered.
Homophobia and transphobia at university are often seen as a separate thing to lad culture, but lad culture is basically privileged people not considering anyone else.
Lane Fox will discuss the relationship between art and science, and whether they are still seen as two separate cultures, with another episode to be fronted by Samira Ahmed looking at modern British photographers.
