cultural universal

noun

a cultural pattern extant in every known society.

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But “your goal is not to maximize reproduction, whatever may be said of your genes” and evolutionary arguments can’t explain our enormous societal emphasis on youthfulness, which has been far from a cultural universal, across cultures or history.

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Anyone questioning the idea that brutality toward women is a cultural universal might look no further than Ohio.

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