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Can anyone tell me why (C) is incorrect?

Although the author uses most of the passage to illustrate that people tend to reshape the cultural past to serve special goals, I think the author clearly states that such reshaping is wrong. So, I assume the author must want to advocate something which he believes is correct. Since the correct thing is contrary to bias and present motivation, the correct thing must be objectivity. So I choose (C).

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It's really important to identify the author's thesis. In this passage, the thesis is stated in lines 1-6. The author's purpose was to advance a thesis, which is best described in answer choice (D).

Incorrect Answers
(A) is out of scope. Global culture?
(B) is unsupported. This distorts the discussion of cultural identity and imperialist attitudes between the first and second paragraphs.
(C) is too narrow. Sure the author would like to look objectively at sources of cultural identity. But the issue is now that we have, we see the influence that bias and purpose has on accounts or definitions of cultures.
(E) is too narrow. This might have happened along the way, but that was just an example or two.

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