Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first.