re: #5 CuriousLurker

Sure they do, the point is that it is perfectly legitimate to make an assertion that cultures are unequal, while the opposite is possible in principle, but a mighty weird position. I don’t think my culture is equal to a culture of, say, a group that practices cannibalism, or FGM, or human sacrifice, or slavery. One may or may not choose to say it outloud. But in the end for example what the US does is spread democracy, and this is also an assertion of cultural superiority, in a way. Superiority of democratic cultures.