The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

Change is no threat to culture.

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.

On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

to find those great stories of wonder found within various cultures that teach us something about human experience.