Why Culture Is So Important in the West?

Culture is such a big deal and it's so important, because through culture, russia pushes its agenda. I don't think even now, with all the horrors happening with ukrane, there is, you know, full desire to disregard RUSSIA. In france, people are studying french literature with a certain pers ive like, ok, let's look at the way how orientalism was injected into French Literature. We should apply the same approach to the russian culture, because rRussian culture has full of these imperialist narratives. You can be er, you can love dostoyevsky, for example, and read it. Am talking to ordinary french or