Limited to the social and political realm, correct?
I personally would limit it to the social realm which essentially covers everything; culture is the context in which my “being” relates to my “world”.
You mean: culture determines how we think of the physical realm?
For me, culture is the context that allows us to relate (think and feel) to both ourselves and that which we, as individuals, are immersed in and so culture is a highly personalised/individualised phenomena.
Well, sure, personalized/individualized phenomena. ← But does that include physical phenomena? I’m sure it must. Culture includes scientific outlooks–it tells our minds (we in the West) that when we look out at the stars at night, we are looking at a vast cosmos that’s 14 billion years old. That must taint how we experience the physical world (holistically) in a phenomenological sense.
And your picture (which didn’t seem to come through in your quote for some reason) tells me that culture influences what we make of the physical world: protests, violence, war–it becomes physical–in a way that, had we developed a different cultural perspective, may not have unfolded.
Relate to ourselves infers psychological and relate to that which we are immersed in infers physicsal (we are in total agreeable).