Nowadays, culture merchants speak incessantly of the need to preserve both "white" and "black" culture, yet none can provide a precise definition of either. Is "culture" becoming the last refuge of committed racialists of all hues, including dyed-in-the-wool racists? 
On this issue, I bow to the late James Baldwin who wrote in
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son:
"Nothing is more undeniable than the fact that cultures vanish, undergo crises; are, in any case, in a perpetual state of change and fermentation, being perpetually driven, God knows where, by forces within and without."
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