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Culture has been defined as “an integrated system of learned behaviors which are characteristic of the members of a society and which are not a result of biological inheritance”. Cultural norms are protected and preserved by the deeply discrediting process of the stigmatization and the punishment of those who violate cultural norms.

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Steinberg, D. (2020). Morality and Culture. In: The Multidisciplinary Nature of Morality and Applied Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45680-1_6

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