What we are actually dealing with is a specific instance of something far older and even unchanging - western culture's belief that visual art has an ability and obligation to provide it with new experiences and knowledge.
Moreover, tourism often utilizes images of local communities as living 'authentically' with unchanging traditions and culture and 'in balance with nature' (Draper et al. 2004).
It allegedly involves cultural relativism, attributes to culture an unchanging essence, treats culture as a determinant of human behaviour, encourages segregation and eventually leads to social fragmentation.
Many experts insisted that there were deep, unchanging aspects of Japanese culture that made it constitutionally unfit for Western-style democracy.
But to create an unchanging version of a culture that neatly fits into a political border is to discount parts of the narrative.
They spoke in great detail about how 'men' behave in sexual relationships, what they value about conventional gender roles, and how these gendered characteristics are not malleable but are rather the unchanging product of both culture and nature.
There is nothing unchanging about "automobility"–like all culture, it is something we make and remake each generation.
In Vietnamese culture, ca cuong symbolises the unchanging basic nature of things, as expressed in the proverb: Ca cuong chet den dit con cay (the ca cuong, dead, on reaching the anus remains intense).
Furthermore, culture is not monolithic, nor it is unchanging, nor still is it unchangeable.
"The exemption (of prior significant ground disturbance) appears to uphold a view that Aboriginal people have long contested: that Aboriginal culture is somehow in stasis, fundamentally unchanging and vulnerable to modernity".
