Ishmael

In Ishmael, Mother Culture is the continual progression of society from the previous cultural facets. Mother Culture also differentiates the tankers from the leavers. The takers are the culture that the narrator belongs to while the leavers are all the other cultures with the exception of the takers.

I would describe mother culture in my life as pretty much everything from the media to my parents. All of these things are influential parts to my culture as a whole. Mother Culture influences my ideas, thoughts, decisions, and perceptions. It influences my moral habits because it establishes right from wrong, bad from good, attractive from hideous, etc. Mother culture influences almost every one of these moral habits because it serves as an established order. By grouping images or texts and then declaring them as either right or wrong, or good or bad, mother culture creates this dividing line between a huge array of things.
-Alexander Cumming