My husband just added, "never forget the culture of your target audience for whom you are writing!! If they don't understand the cultural perspective of your people, there may be a problem which will require some delicate writing. To a professional writer, someone who wants to get paid, you...
This is a good sum up of how academics view culture and something to print out for when you think about culture creation to help get you started. From an anthropological stand point, a culture is defined primarily by:
Social structure: gender politics, systems of organization (government...