This article discusses varying notions of culture between American & German populations. The concept of culture has a specific relationship to nature & the manner in which human interact & confront nature. Each society perceives, constructs, & manifests this relationship with nature in different ways & thus the concept of culture changes from society to society. In the United States, culture refers to how human's deal with nature & how we master it, "the domination of both the external nature that opposes us as well as the domination of the natural forces in the human being itself." On the other hand, in Germany culture is defined by society's desire to conserve nature for its own sake & the "idea that what humans beings acquire & subject to their own rule should not be radically broken or eradicated but rather simultaneously preserved in its own being." As outlined by the author it is distinct historical social, political, philosophical & the economic paths & processes of these two countries which cause these varying concepts of culture. Adapted from the source document.