perhaps a distinction?

I've been batting this around in my head for a few days...

In Orthodoxy we've been distinguishing between Tradition with a capital T and tradition with a lowercase t.

I propose that analogously, we can say the same for "culture." There's culture and there is Culture. The former implies stagnation. My parents used to tell me to get more in touch with my culture because they had a very particular vision of what "our culture" was in mind. Needless to say, that culture had substantially changed, and the people in the place where my parents were from were no longer living the way they were when my parents left.

The second vision of Culture is the way we live because we have been cultured. Culture is dynamic, fluid; we live in respect of our forebears but not exactly as they have lived. We, as a people, can change according to our times, environment, technology, et cetera, albeit in continuity with our past.

I mention this distinction because I have the sneaking suspicion that our sense of goodness, evil, right, and wrong, has developed through ages of generations culturing the generations after them. I hope to not have pidgeon-holed myself into a particular philosophical category. However, I am not convinced that our notions of "right" and "wrong" are obvious ("self evident") from merely observing nature and the way things are. It seems that no matter how nihilistic one may be, the past can not be escaped.