"Culture is like a garden"

I'd like to see all cultures in the world as a huge, diverse and beautiful garden. You can see the branches of the trees and the buds of the flowers, but you cannot see the roots, deep under the earth, the reason for the stability of the plant and the fundament to grow its beautiful leaves or flowers in the springtime. It is the same with culture, where you can see the behaviours and practises on the outside, but the cultural norms and values, which are the foundation for the outer perception, are hidden inside, deeply rooted in the past and tradition of culture.

A garden is not static, but constantly growing and changing as the biological conditions  such as minerals, the amount of rainfall and the hours of sunshine are also changing over time, varying over the years. Therefore, the trees and flowers need to adapt to changes so the ecological balance can be restored.  A culture is likewise dynamic and changing over time, and needs to be nourished in order to grow and sustain.

In a garden, there are millions of different plants, which are sometimes completly different, but still bringing mutual benefits, for example thinking of their different needs of minerals or even symbiosis. Cultures can also be quite similiar or very different, but still bringing out the best in each other, if people learn how to properly manage intercultural environments and profit from mutual benefits.