How Can The Stories of a Culture Reflect That Culture?

From our modified question, 'what happens when you strip a culture of its stories?', we looked at this with a post-colonial and a government control lens, and we found out two things:

The lack of stories takes away a society's past mistakes
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The lack of stories creates a lack of connection in the community.

I think if we reverse these two ideas, we can finally answer our question "How can the stories of a culture reflect that culture?" Well first off, the stories of a culture can easily tell us about all the things that happen in the culture - the mistakes, the celebrations, and anything in between. Majority of our stories take place around some kind of event, for example the creation stories. Without stories like these, a culture has no history. Second off, If we compare two creation stories from different cultures, we will notice that they are told different - they will have different values, different characters, different styles of storytelling. This shows us that a society's stories can easily show us how they act; if they are friendly or not; if they are collaborative or not; if they are equal or not. So in the end, I think that stories are the main vehicle for a culture to be able to live.

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