The Post-Columbian invasion of Europe into the Americas has brought about this miraculous fact. After such a long separation (if we stand by the very plausible "out-of-Africa" theory), human cultures have developped quite similar institutions.
Ronald Wright writes:
Amazingly, after all that time, each could recognize the other's institutions. When Cortés landed in Mexico he found roads, canals, cities, palaces, schools, law courts, markets, irrigation works, kings, priests, temples, peasants, artisans, armies, astronomers, merchants, sports, thetre, art, music, and books. High civilization, differing in detail but alike in essentials, has evolved independently on both sides of the earth. (ibid., 51)
Quite true, and we can only conclude that all the institutions were invented as logical supplements and protheses of the innate abilities of the human as a species.
Our bodily conditions essentially the same, our positions in sexual intercourse, for example, are basically the same across cultures. But then I have a question. Why the positions in giving birth so varied, and in modern Western-style hospitals such unnatural a position is forced upon labouring mothers-to-be? This needs some discussion.
