All good points. But something has to be said about European culture. That’s just what we do- Europeans could travel to Mars, terraform it and we’d have a beautiful planet and classical music and within days, there would be people clamoring to try and get there.
Some other cultures would join us...I think the Japanese, for example, would put in serene gardens, koi ponds, and gentle stringed instrument and flute would waft through the air. I don’t know of equivalent development (complexity, aesthetic appeal) having been achieved in 3rd world countries (seems socioeconomic) but I could be wrong about that. I can’t remember the name of the literary critic who was aghast at the suggestion that he was racist because he focused on refined, gifted literature but he said something like (paraphrasing) “Give me the Shakespeare of the Masai and I shall read him!” We would welcome beauty from all races and ethnicities (we stand in line waiting for hours to get into museums just to admire it) but we just aren’t willing to declare that poor effort and skill equals supreme effort and skill.Well...our side of the aisle is least likely to do so, I think.