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Today's conversation about the idea of "truths" brought to light the idea of when a truth may be applicable. What stood out for me was the idea that sets of observations can become truthfully useful depending on the existing situation.  What I think was nearly implied but not fully discussed was the role that culture plays on the construction of truth.  It appears to me that these are a part of a larger cycle, both playing on eachother.  In some instances we define observations as "truth" or being true in order to make it fit comfortably in our cultural reality.  This being said, I feel that culture defines truth for us in the same fashion.  When a new idea....or set of observations if you will...come about and society/cultural entities want to adopt them, culture is then defining what we see as true.  I think this is extremely important as an idea as we see the expanding diversity of our classrooms.  I feel that it is important that we learn to embrace this idea as we try to be more diverse in our own ideas and styles as teaching as well as simply just being human.