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 This is true. 
 That is “culture” for us. See Walter Benjamin's grave in Portbou.
The epitaph in German, repeated in Catalan, quotes from Section 7 of
"Theses an the Philosophy of
History": "There is no document of culture which is not at the same time a document of barbarism"

I was going to use the word having its origins in a humble bunch of twigs. But I abstain as it usually too ‘controversial’ and tends abruptly end discourse.