"culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a society group and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs"

cultural diversity widens the range of options open to everyone; it is one of the roots of development understood not simply in terms of economic growth but also as a means to achieve a more satisfactory, emotional, moral and spiritual existence"

Article 3 2001 UNESCO Univeral Declaration on Cultural Diversity