Talk:Culture/@comment-8895976-20131103204056/@comment-2236907-20131104112432

A valid point, to be sure, but I think my main rationale for lumping things like ampelmannchen and the Deutsche Bahn railroad network in with culture is their significance to their respective society (ie. Germany) and which certainly represent this by way of their appearance in Monster.

Ampelmannchen, for instance, are often considered to be a (rare?) positive legacy of East Germany, such that citizens actively petitioned to retain these traffic signals even after the fall of the Berlin Wall and, now, I believe they've even spread to the West. Also, ampelmannchen are relevant to traffic psychology (the theory of Karl Peglau), and, given the presence of other psychology issues herein, it didn't seem too untoward to make reference to a related topic here.

Insofar as things like transportation are concerned, one could make an analogous through unrelated argument that London wouldn't be the London we (and/or especially Londoners themselves) conceive of w/out "the Tube" - the point being that it's become a visible cultural icon of London, so I think this could probably be extended to Germany and/or most other societies.

Still, you may be right in wanting to find a more appropriate place for this stuff, and, if you or anyone else proposes a better place to park those contents or others, I'd probably be willing to oblige you on that offer.