Culture Is Ordinary

"I could stand on the mountains and look north to the farms and the cathedral or south to the smoke and the flare of the blast furnace making a second sunset." I think to some of us saying culture is ordinary is a stretch of the imagination. When we think of culture we think of different parts of the world and different races but what Raymond is saying is that these cultures are closer to us then we believe. When he says I could stand on the mountains and look north and south and see two different things he is saying that there are different cultures all around us and that it is indeed ordinary. When he says the growing society is here , yet it is also made and remade in every individual mind, he is trying to get across to the reader that people learn from the way they are brought up, or from the people they associate with. Raymond Williams' outlook on culture is that it is in fact more extraordinary than ordinary. However, it is founded on ordinary aspects and principles.