That's an interesting way of looking at it. Don't you think there's a human nature that's not strictly learned? It seems to me that history repeats way more than it should if we were that good at changing.

Like, obviously, there's variance at the individual level, but it seems like the population as a whole has striking similarities, regardless of where you travel or what era in history you're reading about.

While there are numerous examples of such philosophies and cultures around the globe

Dovetailing into that, a philosophy is not a culture. Philosophies at best sightly influence cultures, as actually practiced, and even that is overblown. Since this is Lemmy, I'll use the example of how well Western Christians follow teachings about not being greedy or whatever. Other cultures have similar facets.