texagbeliever said:
Cultures can be judged only if one believes in absolute truth.
Put another way, how well of a job does the culture do to reward good and punish bad.
Good: Sacrafice, selflessness, perseverance, respect, beauty (physical, arts, music, etc), valuing human life, valuijg the uniquness of life and valuing human relationships.
Bad: selfish, individualism, pride, destroy beauty, and greed.
It can be succinctly described as cultures that recieve and express love with repect. Those that do it better, are better. Typically those that dont use some sort of arbitrary authority (race, skin tone, male/female) to mistreat others.
See if you can expand on this a little. You may be onto something here. Test it a bit. Show some cultures compared to others (not in official terms, just general comparisons will do)
Also, are you using culture to mean a land and its people, or a given period of political rule? Is Germany of Bismarck superior to Germany of Merkel? Or the reverse?
One thing do think is something to look at -- I don't think the measure of a culture is how it treats its criminals or enemies. Simply in general terms, neither of those go toward its preservation or survival. But the current crop of "internationalism" puts way too much accent imo on that aspect.