text: Culture is not like a jacket that you can remove and replace with another one. It is not nationality, either. And, when everything else around you looks strange, attempts to remove culture must surely be cruel.
  
  In settlement of the West, Hutterites and Mennonites were allowed to keep their culture, and to let their culture shape their farmlands. It seems to me that that was more successful than the "one family on one quarter section model," which separated families