To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.